FreeBSD 7.0 on Thinkpad x60s

Installation (Borrowed/adapted from here).

1. Grab a boot-only nfs image from here.


2. Copy the cd contents into the filesystem:

mount -o loop /path/to/7.0-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso /mnt
mkdir /freebsd
cp -rP /mnt/boot/ /freebsd
umount /mnt

3. Edit /freebsd/boot/loader.conf to add:
   vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/md0c"
   to use ramdisk root instead of nfs.


4. Edit /etc/dhcpd.conf to add:



host x60 {
   hardware ethernet xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx;
   fixed-address 10.0.0.xx;
   next-server 10.0.0.2;
   filename "pxeboot";
   option root-path "10.0.0.2:/freebsd";
 }



5. Copy the pxeboot image to your tftp root dir:
   cp /freebsd/boot/pxeboot /var/lib/tftpboot
   
   NOTE: I had trouble with the 7.0 pxeboot ("Can't work out which disk we are booting from"). Crawling the web indicated that it was a 7.0 pxeboot problem and pulling the boot/pxeboot binary from a 6.3 iso image worked.
   
6. I already had a tftp server installed (I use the tftpd-hpa server).


7. Install an nfs server (temporarily if necessary (apt-get install nfs-kernel-server)).

/etc/exports:
/freebsd 10.0.0.xx(ro,subtree_check)

At this point, installation worked for me.

Getting the hardware working

• Wireless


1. Get the drivers loaded

/boot/loader.conf
# See man if_wpi if you want to know what you are agreeing to.
legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1
if_wpi_load="YES"
wpi_load="YES"
wpi_amrr_load="YES"
wpifw_load="YES"
wlan_xauth_load="YES"

2. WPA:
   /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
   

   network={
      ssid="yourssidhere"
      psk="Your clever passphrase with lots of character variation
   }

   
   /etc/rc.conf
   ifconfig_wpi0="WPA DHCP"
   To start it, you can run /etc/rc.d/netif start
   


• Sound

/boot/loader.conf
snd_hda_load="YES"

• X.org

Xorg -configure
cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf

• Finger Print Reader

To be explored.

Miscellany

• /etc/make.conf
  CPUTYPE?=core