Re: Simple question
From: Peter N. M. Hansteen (peter_at_bgnett.no)
Date: 03/11/05
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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 09:01:00 +0100
"Teilhard Knight" <teilhk@privacy.net> writes:
> I just bought this laptop and seems to be cutting-edge technology. I want to
> install FreeBDS and Mandrake there, but I wonder if they will manage with my
> wireless adapter. I guess the only way to know is to install and see, huh?
As somebody else noted, the dmesg style output from the install kernel
contains whatever info it was possible to extract from the hardware. The
information offered by the OpenBSD install disks is excellent (in fact
on more than one occasion I've used that to determine which drivers to
fetch from where when resurrecting Microsoft boxes) and if your gear is
not supported out of the box, the info you get will certainly point you
in the right direction. It might be a good idea or at least interesting
to try a 3.7-beta snapshot (available from /pub/OpenBSD/snapshot/$arch
on your friendly neighborhood mirror) on your brand new hardware.
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