Troels Kofoed Jacobsen’s blog

I am currently trying to get FreeBSD up and running on my HP nc4400 laptop. Up until now it’s going pretty well, but there is lots of small tips and tricks to remember. Therefore I’m writing a series of posts do document the steps I’ve taken. This is as much for my self to remember as it is for everyone to use.

Here’s a preliminary list of things to take care of:

• Usable tcsh
• Networking. LAN and Wireless.
• Power saving
• Touchpad (synaptics)
• Sound and multimedia keys
• Encrypted container in mountable file
• Printer / scanner

Note that there is no bullet point for Xorg. This is because the newest Xorg configures itself with no xorg.conf. Only settings for e.g. the touch pad should be done manually.

Remember that FreeBSD is wonderfully documented in the handbook and in the man pages. Most of the information for these posts I got from these.

Other useful resources:

• Setting up send only mail
• Linux flashplayer on FreeBSD