From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Dec 6 15: 3:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from cpqdl380-7.wac.com (cpqdl380-7.wac.com [208.161.116.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0FB037B416 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:03:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from NATHAN (unverified [206.151.38.45]) by cpqdl380-7.wac.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.5.4) with SMTP id ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:03:31 -0800 Message-ID: <00b201c17eaa$77c36a00$f5c8a8c0@NATHAN> From: To: "Mark Sergeant" Cc: References: <002301c17e92$26f8d050$f5c8a8c0@NATHAN> <20011206141034.Z92148@elvis.mu.org> <003101c17e95$8300f730$f5c8a8c0@NATHAN> <200112062241.fB6MfFH00553@xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net> <009d01c17ea9$b6037fe0$f5c8a8c0@NATHAN> <200112062301.fB6N1MH00742@xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net> Subject: Re: notebook/laptop Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:05:15 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org problem is solved then? =D have a good day, and thanks for the input! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Sergeant" To: Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 3:01 PM Subject: Re: notebook/laptop > One of the usual winmodem problems under FreeBSD, still haven't bothered > getting under the hood to find out which chipset it is to see if I could use > any of the winmodem drivers around as I have broadband or wireless internet > wherever I go. > > On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 14:59:50 -0800, said: > > > > > very cool! i'll have to look in to that. why is it do you think your modem > > doesn't work? is it > > internal? > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Mark Sergeant" > > To: ; "Alfred Perlstein" > > Cc: > > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 2:41 PM > > Subject: Re: notebook/laptop > > > > > > > If you are looking in that league i'd also recommend looking at toshiba's > > as > > > well, everything but my modem works on my portege 4000 with DVD/CD-RW > > burns @ > > > 8x as well ! > > > > > > On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 12:35:15 -0800, said: > > > > > > > > > > > Alfred, > > > > > > > > thanks for the info. i've talked to several people about this same > > topic > > > > and they've all said dell as well. > > > > they're not too bad on the affordable side either. that might be > > something > > > > i'll go for. i was also thinking on > > > > the higher end pricing maybe a vaio or fujitsu lifebook? but i've not > > found > > > > anything to say yes or no on the > > > > support of those two? any ideas? > > > > > > > > nathan@corp.wac.com > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: "Alfred Perlstein" > > > > To: > > > > Cc: > > > > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 12:10 PM > > > > Subject: Re: notebook/laptop > > > > > > > > > > > > > * nathan@corp.wac.com [011206 14:09] wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > freebsd-mobile, > > > > > > > > > > > > hi everyone, im about to purchase a laptop and would like to > > know if > > > > > > anyone has any links, input, or > > > > > > ideas of what to get. i've seen a couple of websites with some > > reviews > > > > and > > > > > > have read up one the PAO site > > > > > > for release info and supported hardware. but im still hanging on > > the > > > > > > question "what is the best for the money, and > > > > > > what will give me less hassle for the money?". if you have any > > ideas or > > > > > > information for me to research on that'd > > > > > > be great. thanks for the information/help in advance! > > > > > > > > > > Every Dell that I've gotten my hands on has "just worked", X and all, > > > > > however you may want to search the archives because I have seen some > > > > > reports of problems with X for some people. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] > > > > > 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s > > technology," > > > > > start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated > > wisdom.' > > > > > > > http://www.morons.org/rants/gpl-harmful.php3 > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Mark Sergeant | url: http://www.snsonline.net/ > > > Unix Systems Administrator | email: msergeant@snsonline.net > > > disclaimer: http://www.snsonline.net/disclaimer/ | mobile: +61 4 1271 > > 42631 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Mark Sergeant | url: http://www.snsonline.net/ > Unix Systems Administrator | email: msergeant@snsonline.net > disclaimer: http://www.snsonline.net/disclaimer/ | mobile: +61 4 1271 42631 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message