BSD: OpenBSD 7.2 on a Thinkpad X201, DragonFly, and OpenBSD
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Some notes on OpenBSD 7.2 on a Thinkpad X201
Some notes on OpenBSD 7.2 on a Thinkpad X201
It has been a while since I had a laptop running OpenBSD.
Recently I bought a refurbished Thinkpad X201, so this was a great occasion to put OpenBSD on it.
Of course, installing OpenBSD on a Thinkpad is not difficult.
You need to install OpenBSD with an ethernet cable attached, in order to be able to run fwupdate. This installs firmware for the wifi card. After that, wifi works fine.
Lenovo Thinkpad X201
The X201 is a machine from 2010, and one of the last Thinkpad X-models with a classical keyboard. And like all Thinkpads, it has a great TrackPoint.
Some specs of the refurbished laptop I bought:
- Intel Core i5 M 520 CPU
- 4 GB DDR3 RAM 2Rx8
- 1200x800 display resolution
- 128 Gb SSD (SAMSUNG MZ7LN128)
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2023-03-04 [dragonfly] pvscsi(4) added
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