Re: Buying ThinkPad for OpenBSD

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From: Scott McEachern
Date: Friday, March 19, 2010 - 8:24 pm

James Hozier wrote:

Save yourself some grief:

1) get a $5 USB stick from $discount_store
2) install a OpenBSD on a bootable partition on the stick
3) boot the laptop into OpenBSD from the USB stick
4) examine the dmesg output, and save a copy

If you don't have physical access to the laptop (eg. buying online) then 
you're SOL and can only hope for the best.  I'm sure others here will 
point out that the "SuperCard 2000" might have the same packaging 
outside, but different chipsets inside.

Booting it and looking at a dmesg is the only way to know 100%.

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- RSM
www.erratic.ca
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Buying ThinkPad for OpenBSD, James Hozier, (Fri Mar 19, 5:52 pm)
Re: Buying ThinkPad for OpenBSD, STeve Andre', (Fri Mar 19, 7:23 pm)
Re: Buying ThinkPad for OpenBSD, Scott McEachern, (Fri Mar 19, 8:24 pm)
Re: Buying ThinkPad for OpenBSD, Daniele Pilenga, (Sat Mar 20, 1:05 am)
Re: Buying ThinkPad for OpenBSD, James Hozier, (Sat Mar 20, 8:43 am)
Re: Buying ThinkPad for OpenBSD, Floor Terra, (Sat Mar 20, 8:50 am)
Re: Buying ThinkPad for OpenBSD, Ted Unangst, (Sat Mar 20, 8:56 am)
Re: Buying ThinkPad for OpenBSD, Matthias Guedemann, (Sat Mar 20, 9:08 am)