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Sun, 06 Jul 2008 |
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FreeBSD 7 on an ASUS U6E laptop Man, BSD and X have both grown so very very nicely that it scarcely seems worth documenting it anymore, but what the heck - for the sake of anyone googling this, here it is - The only bother really is the 4965AGN wireless card. It's got a driver being worked on (iwn), but it's still rather experimental and as this is a machine to work I didn't want to screw around with that. So I picked up a D-Link WUA-1340 USB adapter which is right there in the 7.0 hardware list, so bob's your uncle and that's sorted. If you're interested in mucking about with the iwn driver, there is a group working on that, have at it. It's got some promising commits to FreeBSD 8 so you may find it lovely. The other quirk is just that the X3100 graphic adapter will default to the i810 driver, which is a bit wonky. That's easy to fix: X should now detect everything just fine at the 1280x800 resolution that makes this laptop so very crispy. Sound was easy, it's got an intel High Definition Audio card in, which is supported just fine with the hda driver which is in the 7.0 distribution. Switch it on in the kernel or and you're good. Posted 01:15
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Linux... BSD and Linux are very much the same, I bet you could run Linux Ubunutu Hardy Heron on that laptop... And depending on the graphics card, you may be able to get full visual effects working too! Posted by Ceron
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