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Latest on the EEE PC 1000 and FreeBSD
I am wondering what is the latest on what is supported by FreeBSD. I would really like to run it, but I am pretty shakey on whether it will be supported or not. If you want, I can paste in the results from an LSPCI. I did however notice when I did one last night that the bluetooth and webcam devices did not show up in a LSPCI... So I am basically clueless on those devices. All I know is that the webcam is a USB webcam that is supported by the UVC camera driver in linux...
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The UVC camera.. is USB.. not sure why you expected it to show up in "lspci", it's sitting behind a USB bus.
FreeBSD does not currently have a UVC driver, but OpenBSD does.. including a V42L compatibility layer. (For user land programs..). http://marc.info/?t=122151386700001&r=1&w=2 As for Bluetooth, the above dmesg seems to indicate it's also on the USB bus.. On FreeBSD, read the following.. you'll need to load a kernel module.. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/...bluetooth.html On OpenBSD, experimental support is available.. but you need to recompile the kernel.. http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=2536 (A recent discussion about that..) Hope it helps pal. |
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Thanks. I am mainly wanting to play around and see what it is like. I get tired of the "lack" of a structured plan out of the linux distro's. Maybe I will give FreeBSD a shot on my old E-Machine laptop before I start playing around with the eee pc. It's just all the random chaos that linux seems like sometimes is starting to kill me. Who knows. Maybe I will give OpenBSD a shot if it's got better support for the hardware. Thanks again.
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I believe the 1000 is very similar to the 901?
I have FreeBSD 8 CURRENT booting and running on a 4GB SDHC my 901 (cmd line only at the moment - not enough space for KDE etc). Most stuff works, except the Ralink RT2600 wlan. Haven't tried the camera but I have no reason to expect it to work. BT - dunno never tried it. 8-CURRENT worked better for me that 7-STABLE, as of last week. S3 standby didn't work, and there was a problem with the wired LAN. More here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=979 Good luck! sim |
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