From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Jun 6 13: 6:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from squall.waterspout.com (squall.waterspout.com [208.13.56.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61B2837B405 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 13:06:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by squall.waterspout.com (Postfix, from userid 1050) id DBA019B19; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 15:06:29 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 15:06:29 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: Bill Swingle Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install probs with sony vaio R505-JSK Message-ID: <20020606200629.GZ53809@squall.waterspout.com> Mail-Followup-To: Bill Swingle , mobile@freebsd.org References: <20020606060054.GA693@dub.net> <20020606093816.GA6468@branwen.stty.net> <20020606165642.GA26790@dub.net> <20020606173917.GA8617@pir.net> <20020606174222.GA30200@dub.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020606174222.GA30200@dub.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.26i Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 10:42:22AM -0700, Bill Swingle wrote: > > If it's the slimdock CDROM drive then it's firewire and you're SOL > > under freebsd. > > Yeah that's what I've gathered so far although someone said they'd been > able to mount it under -current... Yes, with the (as-yet-uncommitted) FireWire patch being distributed by , they might have been able to. I haven't tested it personally but the FireWire code looks promising, certainly a lot more so than past efforts at supporting IEEE1394 in FreeBSD. I've been meaning to apply the patch on my R505JL just for kicks. Regards, -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message