From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 11 10:58:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA22449 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:58:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA22439 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:58:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA01344; Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:34:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:34:29 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: John cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd on a laptop In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980211041503.00797350@pop3.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, John wrote: > Has freebsd been made to work on a laptop yet? I'm running a toshiba > satellite 110ct with 16mb - it is a p100 machine. If it does, are there any > 'gotchas' I need to be aware of? Sure -- I've got it working on three laptops personally. Primary gotchas are getting the pccard slots supported. The PAO distribution (from http://www.jp.freebsd.org/PAO) is a good addition for laptops. Toshibas are sometimes wierd birds so be prepared. The mailing list `freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org' is very handy for laptop issues. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message