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NetBSD on Netbooks

Supported Hardware

The following list shows supported hardware when this page was last updated. If you have any updates, please let us know!

  Ethernet Wireless Bluetooth Graphics Audio Webcam Suspend to RAM SD Reader Hotkeys Comment
Asus EeePC 701 Supported in 4.1 Supported in 4.0 (with patch) N/A Supported in 4.0, acceleration via x11/xf86-video-intel Supported in 5.0 Supported in 5.0 Supported in 5.0 Supported in 4.0 Supported in 5.0  
Asus EeePC 900 Supported in 4.1 Supported in 4.0 (with patch) N/A Supported in 4.0, acceleration via x11/xf86-video-intel Supported in 5.0 Supported in 5.0 Supported in 5.0 Supported in 4.0 Supported in 5.0  
Asus EeePC 901 Supported in 4.1 Supported in 4.0 (with patch) ? Supported in 4.0, acceleration via x11/xf86-video-intel Supported in 5.0 Supported in 5.0 Supported in 5.0 Supported in 4.0 Supported in 5.0 Wiki
Asus EeePC 1000H Not supported (ale on FreeBSD) Not supported ? Supported in 4.0, acceleration via x11/xf86-video-intel Supported in 5.0 ? Supported in 5.0 ? Supported in 5.0 Wiki
Asus EeePC 1000HA Not supported (ale on FreeBSD) Supported in 4.0 (with patch) ? Supported in 4.0, acceleration via x11/xf86-video-intel Supported in 5.0 Supported in 5.0 Supported in 5.0 Supported in 4.0 Supported in 5.0 Wiki
Lenovo S10 Supported in 5.0 Not supported yet ? Supported in 5.0 Supported in 5.0 ? Supported in 5.0 (needs "machdep.acpi_vbios_reset=0" sysctl) Supported in 5.0 ?  
Medion Akoya Mini E1210 and other variants of the MSI Wind Supported in 5.0 Unsupported (ral on OpenBSD) ? Supported in 5.0, accelleration via x11/xf86-video-intel Supported in 5.0 Recgnized but not supported Supported in 5.0 Supported in 5.0 Partly supported (OK: webcam on/off, touchpad; Not: sound, brightness)  
Panasonic CF-Y7 Supported in 5.0 ? ? Supported in 5.0 ? N/A Prevented by NIC driver ? ?  
Samsung NC-10 Unsupported (new Marvell version) Supported in 4.0 (with patch; Atheros based) N/A Supported in 4.0 acceleration via x11/xf86-video-intel Supported in 5.0 Not supported (but recognized) Supported in 5.0 Supported in 4.0 Not supported  
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Installing NetBSD on a Netbook

You can boot your netbook from the network as described in our Netboot HowTo. After that, you can do a normal network install.

The usual steps to reduce power consumption as outlined in our Power Management documentation apply.

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