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Date:      Fri, 6 Mar 1998 11:40:16 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Raymond Noel <raynoel@videotron.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CDRom Creative Lab; Netscape
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980306113917.26185O-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <34FFFCEE.5AF20CC6@videotron.ca>

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On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Raymond Noel wrote:

> I have installed FreeBSD on a 486 computer, on a 503 M partition. I
> cannot have access to the CDRom, because it is a proprietary make, a
> Matsushita/Panasonic from Creative Lab, SoundBlaster Pro, external. Do
> you have a patch that would give access to the CDRom? or a means to go
> around this difficulty??

Depends on what inteface the driver uses.  if it's the
Matsushita/Panasonic interface, you might be able to convince the matcd0
device to read it.  What model of CDROM do you have?

> Does the Netscape Communicator for Linux 2.x work on FreeBSD?

Sure does, just make sure you have the linux-lib port installed and the
linux emulator enabled in /etc/rc.conf.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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