From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 11 11:12:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5988714E9E for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 11:12:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA28475; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 11:35:57 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 11:35:57 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: John Reynolds~ Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quick question on IBM ThinkPad In-Reply-To: <14379.2745.562828.28472@hip186.ch.intel.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, John Reynolds~ wrote: > > hello all, > > I have the opportunity to get an IBM ThinkPad here as my next "PC." I of > course want to run -STABLE on it ;). However, I remember seeing traffic on > these lists stating that the IBM ThinkPad is "troublesome" for FreeBSD in > both X configuration and network interface (unsupported device or something). > > Can somebody please respond regarding this laptop? > > BTW, I currently can't reach the search engine on www.freebsd.org through our > firewall (???) which is why I'm mailing to this list. Please respond as soon > as convenient 'cuz my boss wants an "answer" quickly(tm). my thinkpad works just fine, perhaps you'd like to tell us what chipsets the laptop uses for its ethernet, video and other periphs? -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message