From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Jun 3 00:10:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA12169 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 00:10:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA12164 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 00:10:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA22750; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 00:10:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 00:10:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Wong Horn Lim cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Notebook and FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980602173420.0088c500@mail.asiapac.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm moving this over to -mobile. On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Wong Horn Lim wrote: > I need some advice on buying a new notebook and > install FreeBSD 2.2.6-Release, I need to know > the model for ThinkPad,Digital and Toshiba > that can install FreeBsd, and run X-windows for > FreeBSD, network card model and modem (PCMCIA) PCCARD is in a severe state of flux since the CardBus chips in modern laptops are not backwards-compatible to the existing code. For the record, I have a Digital HiNote 575 (which is out of production) that runs FreeBSD great save for the pccard slots. Toshibas have been getting quite proprietary and may not work; ThinkPads have nutty keyboards that may require sc0 flags but otherwise appear to work. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message