On Wed, 7 Dec 2011, Matthias Apitz wrote:
El día Wednesday, December 07, 2011 a las 12:54:35PM +0000, Matthew Seaman
escribió:
Drivers in FreeBSD are generally described in terms of the specific
components (motherboard chipset, NIC, SATA controller, etc. etc.) rather
than in terms of a specific whole machine produced by a manufacturer.
Laptops are particularly tricky in this regard, and if no-one else has
reported on your particular model, generally the best procedure is to
try booting the device using a USB or CD-Rom image, and see what does
and doesn't work.
One good method is to let it boot a recent Knoppix DVD and see what chips it
'sees'; it will not touch the installed OS;
Along those lines, PC-BSD (pcbsd.org) has a live DVD or live USB mode.
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