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Date:      Wed, 22 Mar 2000 23:31:09 -0800 (PST)
From:      William Woods <wwoods@cybcon.com>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
Cc:        mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
Subject:   Re: 4.0 a severe disappointment
Message-ID:  <XFMail.000322233109.wwoods@cybcon.com>
In-Reply-To: <200003230634.XAA00665@nomad.yogotech.com>

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Interesting, I have a 600E and its great with network and modem (both pcmcia)

On 23-Mar-00 Nate Williams wrote:
>> > Based on comments I'd seen here, I upgraded my laptop to 4.0-RELEASE
>> > today.
>> 
>> Well, I can't obviously say that 4.0 works great on everyone's laptop
>> since such is clearly not the case for you.  All I can say is that
>> it's a definite improvement as far as my Sony VAIO laptop is
>> concerned; I now have working networking, sound and my pccard modem
>> even works now.  My point?  YMMV!
> 
> Wow!  That's great, except that if I were to run 4.0 on my box (ThinkPad
> 600E), I'd lose sound, and I'd have to futz with network and modem to
> get it working.
> 
> And, it works great under 2.2.8.  My how we've progressed. :) :) :)
> 
> 
> 
> Nate
> 
> ps. This is *NOT* a shot at Warner, who has worked his tail off after I
> bailed and let things go idle in 3.X.  He's got a big job ahead of him,
> and the numbers of changes throughout the system (ie; newbus & pcm) have
> made it difficult for laptop users to have usable systems, unfortunately.
> 
> 
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