From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 2 22:39:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from watson.ficsgrp.com (watson.ficsgrp.com [194.74.111.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 560EF37B719 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 22:39:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from harry.woodward-clarke@s1.com) Received: from mail.au.ficsgrp.com ([194.74.111.35]) by watson.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA6540 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 07:39:37 +0200 Received: from S1.com ([172.16.48.219]) by mail.au.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id 96; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 15:42:48 +1000 Message-ID: <398905DE.F44D9BDA@S1.com> Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 15:40:46 +1000 From: Harry Woodward-Clarke X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jon Hamilton Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: cheapest laptop for FreeBSD? winmodems? References: <20000803053338.A564916F@woodstock.monkey.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Jon, > Well, be careful what you wish for: it _has_ two slots, but only one is > usable at a time according to my reading of their point-of-sale > propaganda > (one is type III and one is type II). > as I understand this "Type II / Type III" stuff is that a Type III PC-Card is twice as thick (usually) as a Type II, thus you can fit only one Type III card into the slot. Type III devices, I believe, can be things like disk-drives and such, needing both PC-busses to transfer data at a 'reasonable' rate. I could be wrong about this last. AFAIK you can have 2 x Type II devices in the machine at the same time. at this time (V4.0 - it may have changed last week with the release of 4.1) there is limited (read 'almost none') support for Cardbus cards, which are 32-bit (vs the 'old' 16bit PC-Card). Of course, I may just be wrong ;') hth, haxxa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message