Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 09:47:05 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> Cc: Richard Johnson <raj@cisco.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD/X11 on NEC Daylite? Message-ID: <200109251547.f8PFl5761215@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Sep 2001 09:22:08 EDT." <3BB08500.7734C340@mitre.org> References: <3BB08500.7734C340@mitre.org> <15280.12140.840758.895895@rast.cisco.com>
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In message <3BB08500.7734C340@mitre.org> Jason Andresen writes: : > 2) It has a builtin 10/100 ethernet. Is this usable under FreeBSD? : : Probably. FreeBSD supports most common 10/100 adaptors. If you got : the actual chipset you could look it up in the hardware compatability : list. So far I've just seen two or three ethernet chips in laptops. Those the fxp driver supports and those that the xl driver supports. I've heard reports of the third: the realtek rl based chips. I've not heard of any builtin ethernet parts that aren't supported in FreeBSD on laptops made since way before the first BSDcon. : > 4) If I have to remove the hard drive and install onto it using : > another computer, is it compatible with other IDE systems? The reason : > I ask is that I currently have an AST Ascentia-P, an IBM Thinkpad : > 755C, and a Libretto 110CT, and the IDE drives between all three can't : > be booted on any of the others! (I understand there's a pin issue : > with the Thinkpad, but I don't understand the problems between the : > Libretto and the AST - maybe BIOS version?) : : I'm surprised there's a pinout difference between the various : microdrives. I'd have expected them to be mostly compatable : once you pulled them out of the sled. The good news is that : even if you can't do a CD install, the network install will : probably work (or if the internal ethernet isn't supported you : can buy a PCMCIA ethernet card and do the install over that). Actaully, all 2.5" IDE disks *DO* have the same pinout. At least all the ones that have passed through my hot little hands (to be fair, that's only about 40 total with 15 different models). I've seen the biggest problem between laptops is the suspend to disk partition. Some BIOSes get grumpy when it isn't there, or has garbage in it. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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