Archive for 2007/01


FreeBSD with Laptop Acer Aspire 5100 WLMi

This summarizes my experiences with FreeBSD 6.2 and FreeBSD 7.0 on an Acer Aspire 5102 WLMi laptop.
This applies to Acer Aspire 3100/5100/5110 since they use the same Motherboard, and Bios.
X-Windows
The stock ATI driver in 6.2-RELEASE does handle the ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 chipset in this machine […]

FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE Upgrade HINT for intel wireless 2200BG users

This is a post by Hanno Krusken to FreeBSD-Mobile@FreeBSD.Org for users will upgrade to FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE from previous versions of FreeBSD 6.x

Hi all,
well this posting is send before, part of, the specific upgrade hint regarding the iwi0 driver !
now, FreeBSD-6.1-RELENG uses /usr/ports/net/iwi-firmware, but after the upgrade to FreeBSD-6.2-RELENG iwi0 will NOT work, you need to […]

FreeBSD 6.2 released

As some of you already know FreeBSD released it’s newer version of branch 6.x which is FreeBSD 6.2 which is the most stable and best performance release since the release of 6.x branch.
SMP for multi CPUs and cores has been improved with better stability.
Also there is a great new feature for the security got […]