From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Nov 8 6: 7:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from cisco.com (sword.cisco.com [161.44.208.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40BA637B4C5 for ; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 06:07:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from sjt-u10.cisco.com (sjt-u10.cisco.com [161.44.214.97]) by cisco.com (8.8.5-Cisco.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA11677; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 09:07:33 -0500 (EST) From: Steve Tremblett Received: (sjt@localhost) by sjt-u10.cisco.com (8.8.5-Cisco.1/CISCO.WS.1.2) id JAA04301; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 09:07:37 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200011081407.JAA04301@sjt-u10.cisco.com> Subject: Re: laptop article out To: mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org (Michael Lucas) Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 09:07:37 -0500 (EST) Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20001106161606.A42173@blackhelicopters.org> from "Michael Lucas" at Nov 06, 2000 04:16:06 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org +--- Michael Lucas wrote: | | Hello, | | My pccard article has been published at: | | http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/11/02/Big_Scary_Daemons.html | | I want to thank everyone on -mobile who reviewed this for me. | I'm a BSD rookie, I didn't feel experienced enough to review your article, but after reading it I have one minor point: laptop hardware isn't a constant - verify the hardware in the actual machine that you are going to carry out of the store. I worked support for a *NIX-like OS, and like FreeBSD, device support wasn't the greatest. A major problem was that 2 machines with the same make and model could have different components inside. Nowadays things are a little better with spec sheets that say "Neomagic model ABC-123" as opposed to "Video card", but you should still be wary. Good work Michael - your articles have been a big help to me. PS - Compaq laptops & PCs used to store BIOS info ON THE HARD DISK - if you repartition your drive for a new OS, goodbye! Avoid at all costs :) -- Steve Tremblett Cisco Systems To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message