From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Sep 2 01:15:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA24249 for mobile-outgoing; Tue, 2 Sep 1997 01:15:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kiste-5.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de (kiste-5.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de [141.2.5.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id BAA24244 for ; Tue, 2 Sep 1997 01:15:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199709020815.BAA24244@hub.freebsd.org> Received: by kiste-5.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de (1.37.109.4/16.2) id AA24918; Tue, 2 Sep 97 10:15:15 +0200 Date: Tue, 2 Sep 97 10:15:15 +0200 From: Marko Schuetz To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: [Fwd: Notebook Problem] In-Reply-To: <340AFA4E.40B0@public.bta.net.cn> References: <340AFA4E.40B0@public.bta.net.cn> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.66) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Yong" == Yong Liu writes: [..] Yong> The poblem I encountered are: Yong> 1. I could not make the PCMCIA recognized by FreeBSD. I reconfigured the Yong> kernel to include the PCCARD controllers and devices according the LINT Yong> config template. I also added the ed0 driver. It complains that Yong> "/dev/card0 not configured." when I run the "pccardc" command. BTW, this Yong> PCMCIA card really works fine under Win95. If changing the card may Yong> overcome this problem, I have a D-Link DE650 PCMCIA ethernet card at Yong> hand. Try 'dmesg'. What does it say about pcic at boot? Yong> Could anybody give me some hints on these strange stuff? Or is FreeBSD Yong> is not so good as other free UNIX clones like Linux ? Your happy or bad Yong> experiences with FreeBSD on a notebook are also highly welcomed. I use FreeBSD 2.2.1 on a Toshiba Portege 610CT with a D-Link 650 and a Megahertz i3288 and am quite happy with it. There is an occasional rough edge, but much less so than on some commercial unices I have had to use and/or administrate. You cannot quite compare it to Linux. You could compare it to a particular Linux distribution. Some distributions move towards the RPM packaging format, which I dislike because it makes it necessary to use specific rpm-tools to handle these packages: you can not easily use these RPM packages with standard unix tools. I found this very annoying, when I tried to unpack some files from a package without installing an rpm database on my system. Obviously, if you install a distribution that uses rpm and you do your standard tasks with it, you will not encounter this. Still, I think the FreeBSD packaging is much more elegant since it uses standard tools in a transparent way. This is an impression that I often find supported when looking at how some functionality is achieved in FreeBSD. Marko