Re: Centrino - Made for Microsoft Windows XP?

2004-06-29 Thread Jorge Mario G.
Hi there I have a dell D600 and FreeBSD works with no problem I think I had some problems with ACPI but then I fixed that prob. I dont have the intel wireless card I have the broadcom one and it works very nice with the patches from the Evil project (aka DNISulator) Jorge = __

Re: Centrino - Made for Microsoft Windows XP?

2004-06-26 Thread Jim Durham
On Saturday 26 June 2004 02:39 am, Robert Storey wrote: > I recently purchased a new laptop, an IBM X31 ThinkPad, which uses the > Centrino processor. I had high expectations for this machine. > > Alas, my expectations have been shattered. All attempts at installing > FreeBSD 5.2.1 quickly end with

Re: Centrino - Made for Microsoft Windows XP?

2004-06-26 Thread Michael W. Oliver
[please wrap your lines at <80 chars; 72 would be very nice] On 2004-06-26T14:39:12+0800, Robert Storey wrote: > I recently purchased a new laptop, an IBM X31 ThinkPad, which uses the > Centrino processor. I had high expectations for this machine. > > Alas, my expectations have been shattered. Al

Re: Centrino - Made for Microsoft Windows XP?

2004-06-26 Thread jqdkf
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 02:39:12PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > I recently purchased a new laptop, an IBM X31 ThinkPad, which uses the Centrino > processor. I had high expectations for this machine. > > Alas, my expectations have been shattered. All attempts at installing FreeBSD 5.2.1 > quickl

Re: Centrino - Made for Microsoft Windows XP?

2004-06-26 Thread Phil Reynolds
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 02:39:12PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > So I guess my question is this: Has anybody here gotten FreeBSD 5.2.1 to install on > a Centrino laptop? If so, did you need to do anything special to make it work? Any > tips, tricks or hints I should try? Or should I just wait for

Centrino - Made for Microsoft Windows XP?

2004-06-25 Thread Robert Storey
I recently purchased a new laptop, an IBM X31 ThinkPad, which uses the Centrino processor. I had high expectations for this machine. Alas, my expectations have been shattered. All attempts at installing FreeBSD 5.2.1 quickly end with a crash. Interestingly, I have an old FBSD 4.8 CD - that insta