On Jan 18, 2008 3:27 PM, John Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > I have had great success using PCBSD on various acers, I eventually > > got fed up with it being not quite identical to FreeBSD and I now > > have FreeBSD 6.2 on my current acer laptop (a 1680). > I was unable to even boot my Wife's Acer (an Aspire 5520) with FreeBSD > 6.3-pre or 7.0-pre. I'm also pretty sure the Acer wireless is NOT > supported by any native drivers; FWIW, my Acer Aspire 5500Z has Intel 2200 wireless chipset which is supported by FreeBSD and runs FreeBSD and PC-BSD fine. Sounds like Acer laptops don't all have the same wireless NIC... -- Colin Brace Amsterdam http://lim.nl _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"