OT: Linux flavors...

[brian at aljex.com]

Quoting "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com>:

> On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 02:53:21AM -0400, brian at aljex.com wrote:
> > Their use of a broadcom card that needs something very do-it-yourself
> > like ndiswrapper is not necessarily the result of ignorance of other
> > cards that are better supported. My laptop has a built-in broadcom
> > card too, 125 mbit thanks to the latest driver update, and it requires
> > ndiswrapper too. (aka: ndisulator in freebsd) and I certainly knew
> > about better supported cards when I baught it.
> >
> > So much else about the machine is desirable, and unique, that in the
> > real world you just have to accept the realtek nic and the broadcom
> > wi-fi and the conexant winmodem. I mean, use a cardbus card that
> > sticks out and must be shipped/unshipped every time you pull the
> > machine out, when there is a great card with outstanding antenna
> > built-in? Forget it!
>
> It sounds like you have teh same model HPaq laptop as my client; did
> you get the modem and suspend stuff working?

zd7000
never really tried to get the modem working, and acpi is a little funky on
freebsd although it does shut down gracefully in response to hitting the power
button. Never really tried to get suspend or hibernate to work outside of
windows. everything works in windows as well as anything ever works in windows.
I doubt there is a freebsd equivalent of linmodem, and I don't use linux on
this except the rare knoppix/gnoppix boot so don't know if that works or not.
There is a linux area on www.zd7000forums.com where many people ask each other
the same things and a few people seem to have actually figured out a thing or
two.



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