Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 14:01:08 +0100 (BST) From: Tony Clark <tonyc@compnews.co.uk> To: mac@nibsc.ac.uk Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compaq Contura 486 laptop Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960423135053.1556F-100000@padua.compnews.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199604230941.KAA10169@chalsig.nibsc.ac.uk>
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On Tue, 23 Apr 1996 mac@nibsc.ac.uk wrote: > >Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 11:24:50 -0700 (PDT) > >From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> > >To: Tony Clark <tonyc@compnews.co.uk> > >cc: questions@FreeBSD.org > >Subject: Re: Compaq Contura 486 laptop > > [FreeBSD on laptop ? ] > > >OK. Our experience with FreeBSD on laptops is that it sucks battery like > >anything. You can't spin down the hard disk to save power, otherwise > >the system goes nuts. :( We have a 500mb disk split with a DOS partition > >and use that for extended usage. > > I have had 2.2-960323-SNAP on a HP OmniBook 4000CT for 4 days now, and (once > XF86config hacked) it runs quite nicely thank you. On the odd ocasion when the > disk has spun down FreeBSD just seem to pause politely whilst it spins back up > again. I haven't actually tried that under X yet, but I see no reason for that > to barf either. Suspend to disk mode is much more unhappy. O/S comes back > fine, runs a treat. 3C589 card barfs all over the place though (kernel > panics), so I can't recommend that. > > The battery on this one (NiMH) lasts 1.5 -> 2 hrs, and that's with all powere > management features disabled. > > > >I think you meant 2.1. :) yeh 2.1.0 - just the typing gets to me some times :) > > I hope he did~ > > > >We use a 3COM 3c589 Ethernet card and a Megahertz 14.4 modem on ours (a > >Dell Latitude LX). everything works fine here (network card, Laptop :), Xwindows - PS/2), the thing that really confused me on Windows 95 was that the machine had 512K on VRAM and says it could support 800x600 res SVGA - but doesn't. Xwindows on the otherhand works a treat, (ish) it runs at 256colours which is just what i want :) I am having some mega problems with the PCMCIA modem card though ? I have tried two modems and heres the dmesg results:- PSION Dacam Modem ze: pcmcia slot 0: Psion Dacom~Gold Card PCMCIA Modem~V32bis+Fax.~V5.11~ ze0 not found at 0x300 zp: pcmcia slot 0: Psion Dacom~Gold Card PCMCIA Modem~V32bis+Fax.~V5.11~ zp0 not found at 0x300 US Robotics WorldPort modem 14400 2.0 ze: pcmcia slot 0: Intel~MODEM 2400+~iNC110US~A-0~\^Z\^E\^A#~\^A\^C\^[\^S\M-`\M^ A\M^]he\M^F#T\M-|\^T\M-*`\M-x\^C\^G0\M-8\M^Fh\^[\^G!\^H\M-*`\M-x\^B\^G\^[\^G"\^H \M-*`\M-h\^C\^G\^[\^G#\^X\M-*`\M-h\^B\^G ze0 not found at 0x300 zp: pcmcia slot 0: Intel~MODEM 2400+~iNC110US~A-0~\^Z\^E\^A#~\^A\^C\^[\^S\M-`\M^ A\M^]he\M^F#T\M-|\^T\M-*`\M-x\^C\^G0\M-8\M^Fh\^[\^G!\^H\M-*`\M-x\^B\^G\^[\^G"\^H \M-*`\M-h\^C\^G\^[\^G#\^X\M-*`\M-h\^B\^G zp0 not found at 0x300 no its not your terminal its the response (kewl eh :) Would appricate some help on getting the PCMCIA modem to work as i need to dialin to work to fix problems when they happen, any help in pointing me in the correct direction of kernel hacks would be most welcome ? > > 3C589 card here too. Determining the settings was tricky as I didn't use the > PC-Card auto-support for the cards, and had to get the static config off the > card. Basically did an 'F5' boot of DOS and ran the 3C589 install prog to get > the settings, stuff those into the kernel (Boot: -c). I use BNC, so a quick > '-link0 link1' needed on the ifconfig zp0 line) > > Mac > Assistant Systems Adminstrator @nibsc.ac.uk > > mac@nibsc.ac.uk (also postmaster) > Work: 01707 654753 x 285 Everything else: 0956 237670 (any time) > Thanx in advance Little Tony........ Systems Administrator (PA Data Design) http://www.pa.press.net/
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