From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Jun 2 15:43:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 251F814D07 for ; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 15:43:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id PAA15027; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 15:42:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id PAA11780; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 15:42:16 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn2.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA00429; Wed, 2 Jun 99 15:42:14 PDT Message-Id: <3755B346.AD717121@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 16:42:14 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Will Andrews , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: www.dell.com/linux References: <3.0.6.32.19990527013226.008ae120@MAIL.PSN.NET> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Will Andrews writes: > > A warning for those of you considering running FreeBSD on a Dell laptop - > > don't! [...] > > Ever tried to plug a Cisco console cable into the serial port on a > Latitude? Man, these things are evil. No, but I can say from experience that my Sony VAIO laptop works just fine on Xylan console ports. ;^) I still can't get a squeak out of the audio half of the NeoMagic 256AV chip, though... -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message