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Old 1st September 2009
ingridseynhaeve ingridseynhaeve is offline
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Hi vermaden,

I have already worked with "Dell Inspiron 4000" for 5.0 FreeBSD.
Currently, i am working with Sony VAIO Z600RE for 5.0C (01/01) freeBSD.

* For Sony VIAO Z600RE:

--> What doesn't work is infrared, sony memorystick.
--> Limited support for Sony jogdial. Sound is sometimes a bit flaky.
--> Firewire I haven't tested.
--> The rest is working just fine: built-in ethernet, USB(including floppy), PCMCIA.

* For Dell Inspiron 4000:

--> I used a generic 5.0 kernel, which I installed from CD-ROM. This is a dual-boot machine, with windows me on the first 4GB slice and FreeBSD on the remaining 16GB. Also, I seem to have annihilated the windows video and CD-RW drivers during the repartition.

--> I am using XF86_Mach64, version 4.0.2. I had no luck getting X to run with older (3.3.[5,6]) versions. But the new version works beautifully. I was fortunate enough to find an XF86Config file elsewhere, which I adapted to the particulars of this machine.

--> I am using a Linksys Ethernet PCMCIA card (model EC2T); this card is entered in /etc pccard.conf and worked without other modifications.

--> I have not yet attempted to configure the kernel for APM, nor have I explored sound. Aside from the problems I caused myself repartitioning the disk, the process went fairly smoothly. I am new to FreeBSD but i am very happy with it so far.
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