[haiku] Re: first impression of Haiku: looks good
- From: Dave Sharp <davemsharp@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:12:22 +0000
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Michael Weirauch <dev@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi
>
> 2009/12/14 Questioner X <questioner_x@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>> I tried the nightly build ISO Haiku on my Thinkpad T500 and it works pretty
>> well.
>
> Before you stumble over it yourself: I have a 4gig equipped T500 which
> freezes when not limiting the available memory at compile time.
> If you encounter it and wan't to be a tad bit more productive, build
> your own image.
> c.f. http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/3772
>
>> Lastly and most importantly, my wireless card is ignored. It's the Intel
>> 5100 AGN. Once wireless is working I will be able to run Haiku continuously
>> and think about porting some of my code to it. Wireless is the deal-maker or
>> deal-breaker. I can live with kernel panics but not without Wifi.
>
> There is some activity in the FreeBSD world to update their iwn driver
> to support the 5100/5300 iprowifi series. Perhaps Colin (the current
> fbsd compat layer maintainer) is going to have a look at this one day.
>
> Michael
>
>
Out of interest, is there any USB WIFI stick that works under Haiku?
If not, might be worth getting at least one of these working that we
can all go out and buy in the meantime.
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