From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Mar 3 5:39: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.unibe.ch (mailhub.unibe.ch [130.92.9.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8716837B400 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 05:38:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON.mailhub.unibe.ch by mailhub.unibe.ch (PMDF V6.1 #40086) id <0GSE00J01GKPTO@mailhub.unibe.ch> for freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 03 Mar 2002 14:38:49 +0100 (MET) Received: from iamexwi.unibe.ch (haegar.unibe.ch [130.92.63.4]) by mailhub.unibe.ch (PMDF V6.1 #40086) with ESMTP id <0GSE00FKMGKORJ@mailhub.unibe.ch>; Sun, 03 Mar 2002 14:38:48 +0100 (MET) Received: from klee.unibe.ch (klee [130.92.63.36]) by iamexwi.unibe.ch (8.9.3+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA19548; Sun, 03 Mar 2002 14:38:49 +0100 (MET) Received: (from roth@localhost) by klee.unibe.ch (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) id g23DckA28905; Sun, 03 Mar 2002 14:38:46 +0100 (MET) Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 14:38:45 +0100 From: roth@iamexwi.unibe.ch Subject: Re: STABLE vs. CURRENT for laptops In-reply-to: <20020302192145.C90203-100000@skaarup.org>; from Rasmus Skaarup on Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 07:29:39PM +0100 To: Rasmus Skaarup , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mail-Followup-To: Rasmus Skaarup , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <20020303143845.A28869@klee.unibe.ch> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i X-Operating-System: SunOS klee 5.8 Generic_108528-12 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100 References: <20020302192145.C90203-100000@skaarup.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > As described in an e-mail I sent a few days ago > > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=254419+0+current/freebsd-mobile > > I'm having problems with my Dell Inspiron 4100 with a Dell TrueMobile (in > fact an Orinoco Gold) Mini-PCI card. I am wondering whether or not it > will help to use 5.0-CURRENT instead of 4.5-STABLE as I am now - is there > any new features in 5.0 which could make life with a laptop better or > easier? > > In particular I am thinking of features like: > > - being able to fetch the battery status > - after being in standby mode, sound will still work > - a remote possibility for my wireless NIC to work again I just received my inspirion 4100 with that mini pci card a few days ago. I also though that current was a nice idea for laptops and installed it, but threw it right off the disk again. Here's why: Every 10 seconds or so, the machine seemed to hang for one or two seconds. When that happened while you were typing, a few chars just got lost. Especially annoying when typing passwords. And I had also considerable problems when building ports, the first few succeeded, but then when I tried to build portupgrade, it hung again during configure and that was it. Granted, this was my first attempt in using current, but I figured that I am better off with stable. As for the TrueMobile card, I am not that far with installing my system. That card looks like a carbus card, which would mean that there is no go with stable. I also read somewhere that cardbus support will most likely not be integrated into the 4.x branch. But I found this: http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/163/2001/7/0/6285797/ I don't really know what to make of this... could mean the card works anyway. Anyone (John Hay?) got that card working? Is it even possible? greets, Tobe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message