Installed GhostBSD 24.07.1 to Thinkpad X230 - it works!

[alexintokyo]

Just wanted to say that GhostBSD is working great on my laptop - a Lenovo Thinkpad X230.

I am a long time PC user, and am used to using both Windows and Macs, and am a current user of FerenOS (a linux distribution with a similar focus on desktop users who are not a Unix wizz, which is kind of similar to the focus of GhostBSD!).

I particularly love the fact that GhostBSD installed on my laptop without incident, and had apps like Firefox and Evolution as well as Software Station and Update Station, out of the box. Very reassuring.

Although the wifi is a bit flaky when using GhostBSD 14.07.1 with my Thinkpad X230, it still works which is more than I was able to get plain vanilla FreeBSD to do so I am happy. I

When I say the wifi's flaky, what happened is that in my home environment the X230 connected fine with the 2.4GHz access point on my Linksys wifi router. After guessing that wifimgr (ver 1.23) from the Software Station might help matters, I installed that and found that I was able to connect to the 5GHz access point on the Linksys wifi router when I get lucky. Sometimes, the 5GHz AP just doesn't appear in the list of available connections in the Network Manager widget.

What I find the most puzzling though is that when I try to use the laptop away from home, I find it doesn't let me connect to ｔhe tethering access point provided by my iPhone SE3 (neither the 2.4GHz or the 5GHz one), and it will only sometimes 'see' the 2.4GHz access point provided by my Huawei mobile wifi modem (sometimes, when I get lucky I can see the 2.4GHz access point from the modem, but when I switch the Huawei modem to 5GHz it can't see it at all).

The X230 has an Intel Centrino Ultimate N-6300 wifi card. Is there anyone out here with experience of using this card with GhostBSD? For what its worth, the card works fine when I am running FerenOS (Ubuntu linux based distro) on the laptop.