From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Nov 29 11:26:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 227FD37B698 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 11:26:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA24371; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 12:26:13 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA18025; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 12:26:13 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14885.22612.653862.74440@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 12:26:12 -0700 (MST) To: "Kevin Oberman" Cc: Brett Glass , webmaster@wmptl.com, bwoods2@uswest.net, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Thinkpads In-Reply-To: <200011291829.eATITWJ23422@ptavv.es.net> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20001129110537.0498b6c0@localhost> <200011291829.eATITWJ23422@ptavv.es.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > As I recall, the 600E's modem doesn't work with FreeBSD, and > > power management doesn't work. > > Like every laptop I have ever used, the built-n modem is a > Winmodem. But the problem is no worse with the 600E than with a Dell > or Gateway with a built-in Winmodem. > > Power management works just fine on my 600E. > > The only real annoyance I have with the 600E is the sound. It > seemingly randomly probes as pcm0 or pcm1. If it probes as pcm0, it > works fine. If it probes as pcm1, it's dead. I hate computers with > non-deterministic behavior! I don't have that problem, but I'm still running FreeBSD 2.2.8 on mine. :) (The 3.X series had truly messed up laptop support, as it took some time for my handoff of the maintenance to Warner, but he's done an awesome job with 4.X. I just haven't had the time or inclination to upgrade, since everything works fine right for what I'm using it for.) > Other then that, I have always preferred ThinkPads because of the > excellent keyboard (I'm very finicky about that), the TrackPoint (if I > don't plug in an external mouse) and the 3-button "mouse". Fairly > light, too. My reasons as well. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message