Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 11:13:30 +0100 From: "Craig, Rob" <Rob.Craig@tfeurope.com> To: "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: !! Does FreeBSD run on a Dell Notebook !! Message-ID: <E16D36125760D311961900902732AF37202B6E@pmkgbext1.datastream.com>
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This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C1053B.23A54E90 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Afternoon, =20 I would like to switch from Redhat Linux to FreeBSD. Linux is giving my grief. I have an old notebook I would like to install it on. Can you tell me if anyone has tested it or it runs fine? =20 Dell Latitude XPi P133ST NeoMagic 2070 Graphics Card 1Mb Panasonic KXL-DL40 SCSI external CDROM (PCMCIA) 3Com 3CCFE575CD-D PCMCIA Network Card =20 Notebooks are troublesome with anything but I am not sure if Free BSD has all the drivers? =20 Thanks, =20 ROB =20 =20 Rob Craig Spain & Portugal Technical=20 =20 Thomson Financial Calle Maldonado 31, 1B 28006 Madrid, Espa=F1a. =20 Tel : +34 91 745 2028 Fax: +34 91 745 2021 Email: rob.craig@tfeurope.com .oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo.oOo. =20 =20 "This communication is intended solely for the addressee and is confidentia= l and not for third party unauthorised distribution." ------_=_NextPart_001_01C1053B.23A54E90 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html xmlns:o=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w=3D"urn:sc= hemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">; <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV=3D"Content-Type" CONTENT=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-= 1"> <meta name=3DProgId content=3DWord.Document> <meta name=3DGenerator content=3D"Microsoft Word 9"> <meta name=3DOriginator content=3D"Microsoft Word 9"> <link rel=3DFile-List href=3D"cid:filelist.xml@01C1054D.0FEE2310"> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:DoNotRelyOnCSS/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:DocumentKind>DocumentEmail</w:DocumentKind> <w:EnvelopeVis/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Comic Sans MS"; panose-1:3 15 7 2 3 3 2 2 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:script; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:647 0 0 0 159 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} p.MsoAutoSig, li.MsoAutoSig, div.MsoAutoSig {margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} span.EmailStyle15 {mso-style-type:personal-compose; mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family:Arial; mso-hansi-font-family:Arial; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial; color:black;} @page Section1 {size:595.3pt 841.9pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt; mso-header-margin:35.4pt; mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style> </head> <body lang=3DEN-GB style=3D'tab-interval:36.0pt'> <div class=3DSection1> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span class=3DEmailStyle15><font size=3D2 color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font= -family: Arial'>Afternoon,<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span class=3DEmailStyle15><font size=3D2 color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font= -family: Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font><= /span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span class=3DEmailStyle15><font size=3D2 color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font= -family: Arial'>I would like to switch from Redhat Linux to FreeBSD. Linux is giving= my grief. I have an old notebook I would like to install it on. Can you tell m= e if anyone has tested it or it runs fine?<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span class=3DEmailStyle15><font size=3D2 color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font= -family: Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font><= /span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span class=3DEmailStyle15><b><font size=3D2 color=3Db= lack face=3DArial><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font= -family: Arial;font-weight:bold'>Dell Latitude XPi P133ST<o:p></o:p></span></font></= b></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span class=3DEmailStyle15><b><font size=3D2 color=3Db= lack face=3DArial><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font= -family: Arial;font-weight:bold'>NeoMagic 2070 Graphics Card 1Mb<o:p></o:p></span></= font></b></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span class=3DEmailStyle15><b><font size=3D2 color=3Db= lack face=3DArial><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font= -family: Arial;font-weight:bold'>Panasonic KXL-DL40 SCSI external CDROM (PCMCIA)<o:p= ></o:p></span></font></b></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span class=3DEmailStyle15><b><font size=3D2 color=3Db= lack face=3DArial><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font= -family: Arial;font-weight:bold'>3Com 3CCFE575CD-D PCMCIA Network Card<o:p></o:p></s= pan></font></b></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span class=3DEmailStyle15><font size=3D2 color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font= -family: Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font><= /span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span class=3DEmailStyle15><font size=3D2 color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font= -family: Arial'>Notebooks are troublesome with anything but I am not sure if Free BSD has all the drivers?<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span class=3DEmailStyle15><font size=3D2 color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font= -family: Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font><= /span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span class=3DEmailStyle15><font size=3D2 color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font= -family: Arial'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span class=3DEmailStyle15><font size=3D2 color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font= -family: Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font><= /span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span class=3DEmailStyle15><font size=3D2 color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font= -family: Arial'>ROB<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span class=3DEmailStyle15><font size=3D2 color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font= -family: Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font><= /span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><span class=3DEmailStyle15><font size=3D2 color=3Dblack face=3DArial><span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font= -family: Arial'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font><= /span></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><!--[if supportFields]><font color=3Dblack><span=20 style=3D'color:black'><span style=3D'mso-element:field-begin'></span><span= s tyle=3D"mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>AUTOTEXTLIST \s "E-mail=20 Signature" <span style=3D'mso-element:field-separator'></span></span><= /font><![endif]--><b><font size=3D1 color=3Dblue face=3D"Comic Sans MS"><span style=3D'font-size:9.0pt= ;mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:blue;font-weight:bold'>Rob Craig<o= :p></o:p></span></font></b></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><u><font size=3D1 color=3Dnavy face=3D"Comic Sans MS">= <span style=3D'font-size:8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans = MS"; color:navy'>Spain & Portugal Technical <o:p></o:p></span></font></u></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D1 color=3Dblue face=3D"Comic Sans MS"><sp= an style=3D'font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans = MS"; color:blue'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></f= ont></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><b><font size=3D1 color=3Dblue face=3D"Comic Sans MS">= <span lang=3DES style=3D'font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"C= omic Sans MS"; color:blue;mso-ansi-language:ES;font-weight:bold'>Thomson Financial<o:p></o= :p></span></font></b></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D1 color=3Dnavy face=3D"Comic Sans MS"><sp= an lang=3DES style=3D'font-size:8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans = MS"; color:navy;mso-ansi-language:ES'>Calle Maldonado 31, 1B<o:p></o:p></span></= font></p> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D1 color=3Dnavy face=3D"Comic Sans MS"><sp= an lang=3DES style=3D'font-size:8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans = MS"; 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