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.

This is the Harrison family blog. I've set this up as a temporary replacement for our old website. What will you find here? Updates on my family - my wife Deb and children Jessica and Alex; information on my adventures in FreeBSD; maybe some thoughts on autism; or even some ramblings on Byzantine history which is another of my interests; or heaven forbid work. Most of this will probably be written on my Palm Tungsten E with Plogit. I may add an entry later to explain how I made this work. See you soon.