BSD laptop

David Chapman <dchapmancanwest.victoria.bc.ca>
writes:

> Does anyone have any thoughts or experience with Lenovo
or ThinkPad
> laptops?

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad X60s running FreeBSD 6.1. See:

  http://hack.org/m
c/freebsd-x60.html

Very short version:

  Usable after PXE boot and installation: both cores are
found, the
  internal NIC usable but with strange latency, running X
with VESA
  fb. powerd works, but I don't get much battery life (4
cell slim
  version), about 1.5 hour.

  Doesn't work out of the box, but fixable with patches:
Sound,
  accelerated graphics.

  Doesn't work at all or barely: suspend/resume, WLAN, SD
reader,
  fingerprint reader.

I tried installing NetBSD 3.0 as well, but it couldn't find
any disks
to install to.

  I tried installing NetBSD 3.0 as well, but it couldn't
find any disks
  to install to.

In my T60, I set disk controller to legacy, which makes it
look like
PIIX rather than AHCI.

  Doesn't work at all or barely: suspend/resume, WLAN, SD
reader,
  fingerprint reader.

wlan is intel?  I have ath(4) in mine (ordered on purpose
that way)
and it works fine.

Newer current (last month or so?) is better on the wm(4) but
the PHY
programming is still off.  Perhaps that's your latency
issue.

My experience on T60 is otherwise similar.
-- 
    Greg Troxel <gdtir.bbn.com>