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HP 6715b
1. Hardware
* CPU: AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-58 (2) @ 1.895GHz
* Ethernet: Broadcom NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
* Graphics: RS690M [Radeon Xpress 1200/1250/1270]
* Memory: 2048 MB
* Screen: (1280×800)
* Sound: SBx00 Azalia
* Wireless: Broadcom BCM4311 802.11a/b/g
2. Graphics
For the graphics to work properly, I had to install the SCFB driver.
Below I will give a comparison of the incorrect operation of the graphics.
3. Wifi
In order to get the wireless card to work, I had to rebuild the kernel with the options listed here:
and also install loadable modules:
My settings files contain the following:
/boot/loader.conf
if_bwn_load="YES" bwn_v4_ucode_load="YES"
/etc/rc.conf
network_interfaces="AUTO" wpa_supplicant_enable="YES" wlans_bwn0="wlan0" ifconfig_wlan0="WPA SYNCDHCP"
After completing the settings, I rebooted the laptop and made sure that all modules were loaded:
kldstat
Id Refs Address Size Name 1 62 0xffffffff80200000 214ad60 kernel 3 1 0xffffffff82399000 a158 cryptodev.ko 4 1 0xffffffff823a5000 5b93a0 zfs.ko 5 1 0xffffffff8295f000 2ce88 bwn_v4_ucode.ko 6 1 0xffffffff82d20000 153c80 radeonkms.ko 7 2 0xffffffff82e74000 739e0 drm.ko 8 3 0xffffffff82ee8000 5220 linuxkpi_gplv2.ko 9 4 0xffffffff82eee000 62d8 dmabuf.ko 10 1 0xffffffff82ef5000 c758 ttm.ko 11 1 0xffffffff82f02000 28d8 radeon_RS690_cp_bin.ko 12 1 0xffffffff82f05000 3378 acpi_wmi.ko 13 1 0xffffffff82f09000 3218 intpm.ko 14 1 0xffffffff82f0d000 2180 smbus.ko 15 1 0xffffffff82f10000 4d00 ng_ubt.ko 16 6 0xffffffff82f15000 aac8 netgraph.ko 17 2 0xffffffff82f20000 a238 ng_hci.ko 18 4 0xffffffff82f2b000 25a8 ng_bluetooth.ko 19 1 0xffffffff82f2e000 e250 ng_l2cap.ko 20 1 0xffffffff82f3d000 1bee8 ng_btsocket.ko 21 1 0xffffffff82f59000 39c0 ng_socket.ko

