FreeBSD on E4200/E4300
Hi all Anyone have try to install FreeBSD (any version) on Dell E4200 or E4300 ? If someone already do, can he tell me what's working and what's not working. Thanks a lot. Regards -- Albert SHIH SIO batiment 15 Observatoire de Paris Meudon 5 Place Jules Janssen 92195 Meudon Cedex Téléphone : 01 45 07 76 26/06 86 69 95 71 Heure local/Local time: Mar 28 jul 2009 10:15:54 CEST ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD on E4200/E4300
El día Tuesday, July 28, 2009 a las 10:17:02AM +0200, Albert Shih escribió: Hi all Anyone have try to install FreeBSD (any version) on Dell E4200 or E4300 ? If someone already do, can he tell me what's working and what's not working. Hello Albert, The place to look (and make entries) is here: http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/ I run a Dell Precision M4400, not sure how close this is to your E4200 or E4300; you might check all Dell boxes there and mine is: http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/index.html?action=show_laptop_detaillaptop=12868 HIH matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e g...@unixarea.de - w http://www.unixarea.de/ People who hate Microsoft Windows use Linux but people who love UNIX use FreeBSD. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD on E4200/E4300
Le 28/07/2009 à 10:27:04+0200, Matthias Apitz a écrit El día Tuesday, July 28, 2009 a las 10:17:02AM +0200, Albert Shih escribió: Hi all Anyone have try to install FreeBSD (any version) on Dell E4200 or E4300 ? If someone already do, can he tell me what's working and what's not working. Hello Albert, The place to look (and make entries) is here: http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/ I run a Dell Precision M4400, not sure how close this is to your E4200 or E4300; you might check all Dell boxes there and mine is: http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/index.html?action=show_laptop_detaillaptop=12868 Thanks for the tips. Another question : I've access (but I can't install anything) a E4200 computer. How can I check what's is supported by FreeBSD ? www.freesbie.org don't answer (maybe the project is stop). Is they are another livecd or something like that ? Regards. -- Albert SHIH SIO batiment 15 Observatoire de Paris Meudon 5 Place Jules Janssen 92195 Meudon Cedex Téléphone : 01 45 07 76 26/06 86 69 95 71 Heure local/Local time: Mar 28 jul 2009 10:44:33 CEST ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD on E4200/E4300
Albert Shih wrote: Le 28/07/2009 à 10:27:04+0200, Matthias Apitz a écrit El día Tuesday, July 28, 2009 a las 10:17:02AM +0200, Albert Shih escribió: Hi all Anyone have try to install FreeBSD (any version) on Dell E4200 or E4300 ? If someone already do, can he tell me what's working and what's not working. Hello Albert, The place to look (and make entries) is here: http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/ I run a Dell Precision M4400, not sure how close this is to your E4200 or E4300; you might check all Dell boxes there and mine is: http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/index.html?action=show_laptop_detaillaptop=12868 Thanks for the tips. Another question : I've access (but I can't install anything) a E4200 computer. How can I check what's is supported by FreeBSD ? www.freesbie.org don't answer (maybe the project is stop). Is they are another livecd or something like that ? Regards. Assuming there is windows installed in it, just check the device manager for entries like wireless, vga, sound etc. Then have a look at the hardware notes here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.2R/hardware.html to see if these devices are supported. Another thing to try: Boot from the FreeBSD DVD or the livefs iso (ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/7.2/7.2-RELEASE-i386-livefs.iso), go to the Fixit option and select to use the live filesystem. Once you get to a console try a few things like dmesg -a to see what the kernel has recognized. Also look for problems like ACPI error messages and the like. At this point it is probably worth to try this with a FreeBSD 8.0 livefs, as it will probably support hardware than 7.2 does not. Many recent laptops have wireless chipsets that are not yet supported in FreeBSD. Take a look at the bottom side to see if an easy access to the wireless mini-PCI express card is provided. You can then easily exchange the card if needed. Atheros-based cards are sold on ebay for a few bucks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
