From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Nov 26 3:14: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from hermes.mixx.net (hermes.mixx.net [194.152.58.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDA2914E5A for ; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 03:13:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from graichen@innominate.de) Received: from innominate.de (gatekeeper.innominate.de [212.5.16.129]) by hermes.mixx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA32010 for ; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 12:13:56 +0100 Received: (qmail 1959 invoked from network); 26 Nov 1999 11:13:56 -0000 Received: from piano.bln.innominate.de (192.168.0.213) by lingo01.bln.innominate.de with SMTP; 26 Nov 1999 11:13:56 -0000 Received: by piano.bln.innominate.de (Postfix, from userid 502) id 07CFA5921E; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 12:13:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by piano.bln.innominate.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B9103C77F for ; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 12:13:51 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 12:13:50 +0100 (CET) From: Thomas Graichen X-Sender: graichen@piano.bln.innominate.de To: mobile@FreeBSD.org Subject: vaio 505X experiences Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org hello first i must say that i'm impressed how well FreeBSD runs on that notebook - nearly everything is working fine (3.3+PAO) only a few things are left - maybe anyone here has an idea: * what is the state of the usb floppy driver in FreeBSD - as far as i can see thereis a beginning but not fully working umass driver which supports an usb zip drive but not yet the y-e-data floppy - is it right - anybody around here with some more up to date state ? anything to alpha test ? :-) * with the machine came a modem card which is not detected by pccardd (none-none-none-none ...) - so i started to play around with pccardc enabler 0 sio2 -a 0x3e8 -i 5 and it even says "sio2 is a 16550A - but with an cu -l /dev/cuaa2 i can't talk to the modem - anyone any idea how far i am really at this state or whatever i may try (or debug) - any un- documented sio options worth trying ? and last but not least a little hint: to get into the bios of the machine i have to press the f2 key on bootup (which is as far as i have found not documented anywhere) a lot of thanks in advance t -- graichen@innominate.de innominate AG networking people fon: +49.30.308806-13 fax: -77 web: http://innominate.de pgp: /pgp/tg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message