From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 20 12:32:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA02293 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 12:32:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from magigimmix.xs4all.nl (magigimmix.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.25]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA02288 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 12:32:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from asterix.xs4all.nl (asterix.xs4all.nl [194.109.6.11]) by magigimmix.xs4all.nl (8.7.5/XS4ALL) with ESMTP id VAA28084 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 21:32:18 +0100 (MET) Received: from plm.xs4all.nl (uucp@localhost) by asterix.xs4all.nl (8.7.5/8.7.2) with UUCP id VAA16158 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 21:19:31 +0100 (MET) Received: (from plm@localhost) by plm.xs4all.nl (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA01183; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 08:19:46 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Laptops. Is something missing? References: <87d8x95jni.fsf@totally-fudged-out-message-id> From: Peter Mutsaers Date: 20 Nov 1996 08:19:45 +0100 In-Reply-To: James Hu's message of Tue, 19 Nov 1996 15:44:28 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <87wwvhz10u.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl> Lines: 29 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.39/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> On Tue, 19 Nov 1996 15:44:28 -0600 (CST), James Hu said: JH> Peter Mutsaers writes: >> Hello, >> I run FreeBSD and prefer it over Linux. But now I have to install one >> of them on my new laptop. Some people tell me that Linux has better >> support for laptops. Is that true? If so, then what is missing >> w.r.t. laptop support on FreeBSD? It does seem that pcmcia is >> supported. Do I need more specific support for laptops that FreeBSD >> might not provice? JH> AFAIK, the only problem is that FreeBSD does not come with PCCARD JH> support built into the GENERIC kernel. So, once installed on the JH> laptop, you'd have to rebuild the kernel to get PCCARDs to work. JH> Also, someone posted this URL a while back, which should help you out: JH> http://www.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp/person/hosokawa/PAO/ Aha, this URL is very useful. There is a complete pcmcia package with many drivers. I have a Megahertz pcmcia ethernet card which is supported. It is only surprising that this is not in the standard (current) kernel since it would save a lot of people the work of patching the kernel sources etc. Thanks, -- Peter Mutsaers | Abcoude (Utrecht), | Trust is a good quality plm@xs4all.nl | the Netherlands | for other people to have