From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 30 04:46:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA22878 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 04:46:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (vh1.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA22869 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 04:46:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA04311; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 23:08:54 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199801301238.XAA04311@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: lcremean@tidalwave.net cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A truly losing laptop for FreeBSD. In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 30 Jan 1998 06:49:53 CDT." <19980130064953.15220@wakky.dyn.ml.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 23:08:53 +1030 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" > > 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. Hmm, I haven't noticed that with this unit (a 220CDS); I happily get ~1MB/sec over my NE2000 clone. OTOH, I'm faster with a pencil that the disk in it; not sure where the bottleneck is there. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\