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Old 18th May 2008
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Default Lenovo Thinkpad T60 - FreeBSD Configuration Guidelines and Advices

This is my first post in this forum. So, I would like to say hi and good day to all members in this forum.

At this moment, I'm waiting my first laptop in my life, Lenovo Thinkpad T60 to be arrived to my home, with expectation period in 1-2 weeks.

As a newbie, during this "grace/waiting period", I would like to seek any guidelines and advices from all forum members for the best current practices to install, configure, and fine tune FreeBSD (in this case, 7.0) for laptop/mobile computing, which in in this thread, Lenovo Thinkpad T60.

As a starting and preparation points, I'm reading and subscribing following websites and mailing lists:

FreeBSD Handbook
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/

FreeBSD on Laptops
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articl...p/article.html

The FreeBSD Laptop Compatibility List - BSDGroup
http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/

freebsd-mobile -- Mobile computing with FreeBSD
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis...freebsd-mobile

FreeBSD on ThinkPad T60 series
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/f...ch/009582.html


Tips from forum members:

caesius
Issue with ACPI and some of the hotkeys/fingerprint/other gizmos

Domenick
http://dsteinbrook.googlepages.com/f...-thinkpad-t41p
http://freebie.miraclenet.co.th/notebook/t42/
http://www.freebsddiary.org/ibm-thinkpad-t41.php

18Googol2
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki

Thank you very much.

Last edited by worldofopensource; 19th May 2008 at 12:52 PM. Reason: Updating tips
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