Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 07:53:43 -0600 From: "Lorin Lund" <lorin_lund@yahoo.com> To: "iago" <rnera@optushome.com.au>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: laptops Message-ID: <001c01c03841$aa5e2460$0300fea9@lorins.ild.telecom.com>
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As for PCMCIA cards: Cardbus is not supported. You need to get 16 bit cards. Also, it appears that PCMCIA cards under FreeBSD are not hot-swappable. The card has to be in the slot at boot time to be recognized. At least that is what it looks like to me. For notebook computers with builtin modems: everyone I've heard of are WinModems. They won't work with FreeBSD yet. I have a Compaq Presario 1200. It works but I wouldn't recommend it. I got it before I knew what a hassle it would be to get configured. The biggest hassle was X configuration. I ended up loading Linux Mandrake to let it configure the X windows then I saved the X configuration file and reloaded FreeBSD. Some things you will probably want in your rc.conf apm_enable="YES" pccard_enable="YES" pccard_ifconfig="inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 255.255.255.0" defaultrouter="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" You will probably also want to add this to /boot/kernel.conf en apm en pcic0 -----Original Message----- From: iago <rnera@optushome.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 5:47 AM Subject: laptops > >HI everyone > >looking into getting a laptop > >i will most likelt dual boot betweem MS and FreeBSD, to that end... what >laptops are people using with FreeBSD these days? > >are they running well ... X also working fine? > >thanks > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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