martin g writes:
Hello all
Has anyone got experience with Lenovo notebooks running OpenBSD.
If you are so kind to share your experience.
I recently got my hands on a Z61T which is pretty nice. The functionality
that I require works, though it is lacking the power managament functions
(this work is currently in progress if I understand correctly). One thing
to note is that the disk driver works, which is not the case with NetBSD (at
least, the last time I checked).
I've put the dmesg.boot up here:
http://bender.cl.msu.edu/~muk/nibbler-dmesg.boot
The bge interface works great docked or undocked, and the wpi interface also
works (make sure you read the man page), though I have had some performance
degredation with it in some situations -- I rarely use the wireless for big
sustained transfers or the like, so I have not made time to test it
properly.
I did note that booting GENERIC.MP really hurt my performance (I just gave
it a whirl without understanding the implications on a dual-core machine).
Regardless, I think it works pretty well. This is the first time I've had a
ThinkPad, and it seems pretty nice so far. I've only booted OpenBSD and
SUSE Linux on it to date, and both seem to do well (I'm sticking with
OpenBSD).
./matt
