Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 16:32:03 +0100 From: ron@zappa.demon.nl To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>, "Shwim" <shwim@purdue.edu> Subject: Re: Going to attempt installation to a Compaq Presario 1690 Laptop Message-ID: <20000212153744.4F7271EEA@zappa.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <001801bf74af$c1bab200$0301a8c0@computer>
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Hello, I have an Compaq Presario 1546 and tried for a few weeks to get 4.0 current working, browsing the mailing list and the web for tips, without any luck so far. 3.4-STABLE didn't work either. Ofcourse it installs from cdrom and runs ok, but it don't recoqnise sound, modem and I didn't get my pccard cards working correctly. Didn't try soundcard or video because network must work first. The problem is that the pccards seem to initialise correctly, but network packets don't get through, some packets got through very slowly, tried all irq/mem setting I could set. Yesterday I have installed Slackware 7, to test if my laptop could run unix, because I couldn't disable PNP in the bios. It worked straight away. And I have tested it with all three cards I have, 3C574TX pccard , 3C589 pccard and Xircom Realport 10/100 Cardbus. All ok. I leave it installed for now, I prefer FreeBSD, but Linux is always better than Winblows. I guess FreeBSD is not ready for the big variety of laptops out there yet, I look again in a few months... FreeBSD runs a mail server and a firewall overhere, so I can still play with it alot. Regards, Ron. On 11 Feb 00, at 11:47, Shwim wrote: > Has anyone installed FreeBSD on a Compaq Presario Laptop? > I'd like to get in contact with anyone who has had experience > with this. Thank you. > > Shwim > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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