I am planning to load FreeBSD as a dual boot on new IBM laptop. The model is an R51 which comes with: Radeon 7500 - video Intel Pro/1000 NT Mobile Intel Pro/Wireless 2200BG Integrated Audio Intel 82802 UltraATA Can anyone tell me whether the above hardware is all supported and stable in FreeBSD. Currently, my last install of FreeBSD was 4.11 about a year ago on an older IBM desktop and as a simple, low volume server. I am a bit confused now with 6 as I read on the website that 6-stable is not really stable..??..?? who though that one up?? Should I therefore download 6.0-Release and then just cvsup and rebuild?? Is this a better option than using 5.4 at this point? Thanks for your help. -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca -------------- next part -------------- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.21/236 - Release Date: 1/20/2006
On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 13:20:47 -0800 Graham North <northg@shaw.ca> wrote:> Should I therefore download 6.0-Release and then just cvsup and > rebuild?? Is this a better option than using 5.4 at this point?Yes. Use 6.0 (install -release, cvsup to -stable and rebuild). I recommend using 6.0 for _any_ mobile user, unless it is (for the time being) 'impossible' to get it running. 6.0 have so many enhancements for mobile users, you wouldn't be that satisfied if you indstalled anything else on it In particular: wireless support. No, it doesn't support all cards that are "out in the wild" but for those who are supported (like those using the ath driver) you will have whats currently the best wireless option on FreeBSD. Also the framework for power saving (dorry, I forget the name) helps you improve battery life, even if it is still not as good as those on ... other OS.... And 6.0 has better performance than 5.4, and numerous other things. HTH -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen, Norway
On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 01:20:47PM -0800, Graham North wrote:> I am planning to load FreeBSD as a dual boot on new IBM laptop. > The model is an R51 which comes with:I also used to run FreeBSD 6.0 on a R51, the only difference I can see is that my TP has a Radeon 9000. Everything should work and I would also recommend 6.0, except for an annoying problem with wlan/wpa_supplicant: the wlan connection will be dead from time to time (see PR kern/88793). bye, Uwe
Graham North <northg@shaw.ca> wrote:> I am planning to load FreeBSD as a dual boot on new IBM laptop. > The model is an R51 which comes with: > Radeon 7500 - video > Intel Pro/1000 NT Mobile > Intel Pro/Wireless 2200BG > Integrated Audio > Intel 82802 UltraATA > Can anyone tell me whether the above hardware is all supported and > stable in FreeBSD.I had RELENG_5 installed on my ThinkPad R51 UN0K6GE until two weeks ago when I switched to RELENG_6. It was stable with 5.4 and is stable now. I just updated to get some of the new features.> Should I therefore download 6.0-Release and then just cvsup and > rebuild?? Is this a better option than using 5.4 at this point?I'd skip 5.4. It was good, but 6.0 is even better. Fabian -- http://www.fabiankeil.de/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20060122/c726d2c5/signature.bin