Hakim Z. Singhji wrote:
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Hi All,
I recently purchased an IBM Thinkpad R51 and I was looking to install
FreeBSD 4.10. Has anyone ever done this? Should I anticipate any
problems? Lastly I have never installed FreeBSD on a laptop before are
there things that I should know before I get started? Thanks in advance
for you help.
HZS
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Hi,
I have successfully installed 4.10 on a R31 and a T22. There is some
info on the internet for older IBMs, but not much (see below).
Sound does work.
PCMCIA (16 bit!) should do, but I still could not test.
USB is working well.
Modem (winmodem) does more ore less *not* work. There is even a port
(comms/ltmdm), providing a kernel-module, but I did not test it.
To setup X-Window with KDE is easy.
Overall, FreeBSD 4.10 on those IBMs, no Problem.
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/l.ertl/thinkpad/index.html
http://groups.google.de/groups?q=freebsd+thinkpadstart=10hl=delr=ie=UTF-8selm=200206051237.00014.metrol_metrol.net%40ns.sol.netrnum=20
http://groups.google.de/groups?q=freebsd+thinkpadstart=60hl=delr=ie=UTF-8selm=c6v6h3%24evs%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.twrnum=61
I found this in GENERIC:
# If you have a ThinkPAD, uncomment this along with the rest of the
PCVT lines
#optionsPCVT_SCANSET=2 # IBM keyboards are non-std
I suppose R51 will be similar. Hope that helps. FreeBSD 5.x may be a
better choice (ACPI, Cardbus,...whatever), but I still have no 5.x
installation anywhere.
Good luck,
Ben
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