From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 30 03:50:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA12303 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 03:50:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wakky.dyn.ml.org (lee@ppp-25-8.tidalwave.net [208.220.25.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA12298 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 03:50:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lee@wakky.dyn.ml.org) Received: (from lee@localhost) by wakky.dyn.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA08989; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 06:49:53 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lee) Message-ID: <19980130064953.15220@wakky.dyn.ml.org> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 06:49:53 -0500 From: Lee Cremeans To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A truly losing laptop for FreeBSD. Reply-To: lcremean@tidalwave.net References: <19622.886160352@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.85e In-Reply-To: <19622.886160352@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Fri, Jan 30, 1998 at 03:39:12AM -0800 X-OS: FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE X-Evil: microsoft.com Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" On Fri, Jan 30, 1998 at 03:39:12AM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > http://www.toshiba.com/tais/csd/products/portable/tecra/featured/index.htm > And it's sort of sad because this is the kind of *high end* laptop > you'd like to see more FreeBSD users using. Unfortunately, according > to one BETA tester, he can't even get FreeBSD to recognise the serial > ports on the thing much less the more complex peripherals. In fact, > it seems to hold the current record for the most things that don't > work under FreeBSD on a single machine. :-) Toshiba laptops suck in other ways, too, at least the Satellites do...they have slower-than-usual PCMCIA buses, which cramps performance if you're using, say, a PCMCIA hard drive or an encryption token. -- Lee C. -- Manassas, VA, USA (WakkyMouse on DALnet #watertower) A! JW223 YWD+++^ri P&B++ SL+++^i GDF B&M KK--i MD+++i P++ I++++ Did $++ E5/10/70/3c/73ac/95/96 H2 PonPippi Ay77 M | hcremean (at) vt.edu FreeBSD/Linux/Unix hacker...Win95 and M$ evil! (go see www.freebsd.org) My home page: http://wakky.dyn.ml.org/~lee | finger me for geek code