Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 15:55:12 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net> To: William Bulley <web@merit.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ThinkPad and FreeBSD Message-ID: <199604182155.PAA01490@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <199604182141.RAA19816@ohm.merit.edu> References: <199604182141.RAA19816@ohm.merit.edu>
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> We are considering an IBM ThinkPad 701 for FreeBSD. It should work fine. > I don't know what it has on the inside (the store clerk > frowns on my taking laptops apart in his showroom...) :-) Taking them apart outside of the storeroom won't reveal much either. :) > 1) modem uses DSP (?) Nope. > 2) disk is not IDE (MicroChannel?) It's an IDE disk. > 3) UART chip (??) Yep. > 4) other stuff like the red button mouse (just a PS/2 mouse?) Yep. > Is this gonna work or cause me lots of headaches? Thanks! It should work fine if you use the 2.1R thinkpad boot floppy. ftp://freefall.freebsd.org/incoming/nate/* Nate
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