From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 27 09:09:17 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBC6D16A4CE for ; Sun, 27 Jun 2004 09:09:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29AAD43D3F for ; Sun, 27 Jun 2004 09:09:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao [10.0.0.247]) by ns1.thought.org (8.12.8p2/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i5R993RA073624; Sun, 27 Jun 2004 02:09:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thought.org (8.12.9p2/8.11.3) with ESMTP id i5R991Kl089625; Sun, 27 Jun 2004 02:09:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i5R990oU089624; Sun, 27 Jun 2004 02:09:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 02:09:00 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Luke Kearney Message-ID: <20040627090900.GA89574@tao.thought.org> References: <20040627052447.GA89069@tao.thought.org> <20040627171655.3372.LUKEK@meibin.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040627171655.3372.LUKEK@meibin.net> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 17 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: Gary Kline cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: next question re the Thinkpad. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 09:09:17 -0000 On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 05:19:09PM +0900, Luke Kearney wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 22:24:47 -0700 > Gary Kline granted us these pearls of wisdom: > > > > > Is anybody using a Thinkpad among the list? I have found one > > with the > > > > ``SMC 2206 compact USB-Ethernet adapter for connecting to > > ethernet networks.'' > > > > In LINT (4.10) I see "SMC 2202USB" listed. > > > > Can anybody help me? > > > > gary > > I have Thinkpad X30 which runs 4.9-p10 currently and I have had no real > issues in setting it up. Mine has inbuilt NIC's though and there were no > issues at all in recognising the ethernet or wireless NIC. X was really > easy to setup and it's been really reliable since day1. > > HTH > It helps to a point. The thing is that my budget is limited to th $200-$300 range. I'm not looking for anything fast ... just smething solid with a good drive and CDROM. And a NC that just-works. I've been checking the freebsd laptop list and working from these, but still flying blind pretty much. Anybody else have laptop success stories to share in the 266-400MHz range?? thanks to all, gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix