From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Mar 7 1:29:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from student.rug.ac.be (student.rug.ac.be [157.193.88.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3840D14BE9 for ; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 01:29:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from frank@zeus.rug.ac.be) Received: from zeus.rug.ac.be (frank@zeus.rug.ac.be [157.193.41.38]) by student.rug.ac.be (8.9.2/(Zeus-WPI)) with ESMTP id KAA25904 for ; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 10:29:23 +0100 (CET) Received: (from frank@localhost) by zeus.rug.ac.be (8.9.2/8.9.2/ZeusWPI) id KAA10718 for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 10:29:22 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 10:29:22 +0100 From: Frank Louwers To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: [newbie]: freebsd on ibm thinkpad Message-ID: <19990307102922.A10601@zeuswpi.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i X-Useless-Header: this is a very stupid bandwith consuming line X-Operating-System: Unix Forever! Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org My father recently got a new ThinkPad, so I get the old one :-) It is a ThinkPad 760CD, with 5 GB HD and 56 MB RAM. I want to install FreeBSD on it. As the webpages are a bit vague, I want to ask a few things: 1) Any general problems concerning thinkpads and freebsd? (i did a search on excite, but all it gave me were Japanese sites) 2) How stable is de pccard support? I am not talking about exotic things, but just a plain 3Com networkcard, a modem, and mayby a flashcard from time to time. Is it possible to install freebsd with the 3COM card (ftp install)? Hot swappable? 3) You have your own bootmanager. I know the IBM BootManager is very good, and have enough OS/2 licences to put one on it. Which do you advise me to use? 4) APM stuff: I am afraid the "Hibernation" function will not work? How about normal suspends and resumes? 5) There is a mwave sound/modem chip in it. I have read on some ThinkPad/Linux pages that they are able to use the modem and soundcard (SoundBlaster emulation), if they first boot to dos, load the dos-drivers and then boot Linux (does FreeBSD has something like loadlinux to "boot" freebsd from within dos?). Any news/info on doing the same on FreeBSD? 6) I was thinking about going for the 3.1 stable version. Are there any advantages/disadvantages in taking 4.0-CURRENT? Thanks in advance, Frank PS: I am a freebsd on mobile newbie, not Unix newbie :-) -- /----------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Frank Louwers (frank@zeuswpi.org) | | | | Vice President System Administrator | | ZeusWPI - IT workgroup Master in Unix Administration | | http://www.zeuswpi.org/ | | | | "Berkely brought us two things: | | Unix and LSD. This is believed not to be a coincidence ..." | | | \----------------------------------------------------------------------------/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message