From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue May 30 21:41:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (ha1.rdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.0.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FE2937B632 for ; Tue, 30 May 2000 21:41:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@bitshift.org) Received: from agamemnon.home.com ([24.1.127.44]) by mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <20000531044120.ALH27967.mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com@agamemnon.home.com>; Tue, 30 May 2000 21:41:20 -0700 Received: (from skritch@localhost) by agamemnon.home.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id VAA15048; Tue, 30 May 2000 21:41:16 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: agamemnon.home.com: skritch set sender to mark@bitshift.org using -f Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 21:41:15 -0700 From: "Mark C. Langston" To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sharp Actius PC-A800? Message-ID: <20000530214115.K12707@bitshift.org> References: <14644.36559.428319.251221@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <14644.36559.428319.251221@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Wed, May 31, 2000 at 12:13:25AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 12:13:25AM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > I'm looking into low-budget "ultra portables" for use with FreeBSD and > the Sharp Actius PC-A800 is rising to the top of the list. Is anybody > out there using an A800 with FreeBSD? Any quirks to be aware of? Does > sound work? I'm using one. Have been for a week now. 4.0-STABLE and -RELEASE: Couldn't get sound working. 5.0-CURRENT: Works like a charm, though I do seem to have to change the volume before it wants to work. Quirks: The FN-Fkey combo for volume control won't work. Seems to be software-based. There's no BIOS option for disabling suspend when the lid's closed, that I can find. And the left Fn key is in an incredibly annoying location...I ended up remapping the caps lock to CTRL in both X and console. > > If anybody has an A800, can you tell me what sort of memory it takes? > Sharp's own site is the only place I've found selling memory for it -- > at the outrageous price of $379 for 128MB of memory. From the > picture, I'd guess that it is a PC100 144-pin SODIMM, but I'd like to > be certain... No idea. I just sucked it up and dropped the $200 for the 64MB upgrade, for 128MB total. As a further data point, I'm using the notebook without PAO code, and am successfully using a Lucent WaveLAN Gold 11Mbps Turbo PCMCIA card (nee 'orinoco'). Had to modify the suspend and resume scripts to kill and restart dhclient, and add a local startup script that changes the card mode from ad-hoc (default) to base-station use. -- Mark C. Langston mark@bitshift.org Systems & Network Admin San Jose, CA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message