Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 21:28:36 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Jay Kuri <jay@oneway.com>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron Message-ID: <200008030328.VAA27596@nomad.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000802184929.053c22f0@localhost> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000802140411.05180a70@localhost> <200008020116.SAA15805@mina.soco.agilent.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000801154059.04c50b80@localhost> <20000802110407.F36094@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20000803094307.Q36094@wantadilla.lemis.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000802184929.053c22f0@localhost>
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> The PC Card software should, by default, choose available interrupts > for PC Cards by default. And how would it do that, given that FreeBSD doesn't have drivers for at least one or two pieces of hardware in the laptops, as well as the fact that many drivers require BIOS support to work correctly. WinXX gets away with this because it can call BIOS functions, and hardware vendors supply their own drivers to the OS vendor. WinNT has the same sorts of problems we do, which is why NT is not well supported on laptops, and Win2K has even poorer support. And don't give me the "Linux works" answer, since it's not always valid. Sometimes it is (because Linux tends to support more hardware, albeit poorly), but it's certainly not a certainity. For what it's worth, FreeBSD sometimes supports certain hardware much better than Linux does. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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