Friday, April 07, 2006

My new laptop arrived recently. It's a new Dell Inspiron 1300, the cheapest I could find. It'll replace the IBM 600e I bought from ebay a year ago which no longer boots - and is now listed on ebay again to see if I can make some money back!

I've successfully loaded FreeBSD on it - and upgraded to 6.1-PRERELEASE over the weekend. The onboard Broadcom 440 is detected as bfe0, but I'm using an Asus WL-167G usb wireless adaptor. Took some research to find one that works with FreeBSD - this is seen as ural0 and worked first time. I now need to get WEP and X working. See you later.