From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 10 11:55:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (heorot.1nova.com [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC05137B416 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 11:55:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D2EE018F1; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 12:55:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA2A518F0; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 12:55:08 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 12:55:08 -0800 (PST) From: Rick Hamell To: "Sconiers, John" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Gate Way Laptop 9550 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Moving from a Toshiba to Gateway laptop. Wondering if any one has had the > pleasure of installing FreeBSD on a gateway laptop before. It's a 9550 with > the builtin ethernet and modem. Before I install are there any "gotchas" I > should know about and do the internal devices work. I have a working > -current installation on the Toshiba. I've got a Solo 1100 installed 4.0 with no problems. The Winmodem and the Sound didn't work, but I didn't pursue sound very far. It's probally time to upgrade to 4.4 anyways... :) Rick ******************************************************************* Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://hw.shatteredcrystal.com ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message