Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 19:41:25 -0500 From: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> To: "Michael W. Collette" <metrol@metrol.net> Cc: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>, FreeBSD Mailing Lists <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Repost: PCMCIA card for Vaio, advice needed Message-ID: <20020609004125.GK53809@squall.waterspout.com> In-Reply-To: <200206081716.47121.metrol@metrol.net> References: <200206081623.18567.metrol@metrol.net> <20020609000508.GJ53809@squall.waterspout.com> <200206081716.47121.metrol@metrol.net>
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On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 05:16:47PM -0700, Michael W. Collette wrote: > This user spends about 95% of his time on some kind of Ethernet setup. I just > want to make sure that when he goes out of town that I'm able to provide him > with some means of getting a dial up to work. A simple card swap wouldn't be > a bad deal at all for him. That's how I do it currently. I use: - Cisco Aironet 350 (an(4)) for WiFi (98%+ of the time) - Linksys PCM100 (ed(4)) for wired 802.3 - a really old modem pc-card that works great on FreeBSD > I doubt I'll have the time to play with CURRENT on this thing. It's an old > k6-500, and I know compiling is going to be time consuming on it. I don't > want to have to spend days trying to get him outta my hair :) Getting X, > sound, and all that working is going to be bad enough. Still beats the heck > outta dealing with Windows viruses, or the screwy upgrade path the Linux > distros provide. You know, you can install a -CURRENT snapshot from snapshots.jp.freebsd.org like any other release. You could also try 5.0-DP1 which is only 2 months old... Regards, -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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