From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 6 19:42:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gscamnlm03.wr.usgs.gov (gscamnlm03.wr.usgs.gov [130.118.4.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE51A37B719; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 19:42:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rsowders@usgs.gov) To: Barry Irwin Cc: Gan Starling , owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Can you recommend... X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.3 March 21, 2000 Message-ID: From: "Robert L Sowders" Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 19:42:20 -0800 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on gscamnlm03/SERVER/USGS/DOI(Release 5.0.3 |March 21, 2000) at 03/06/2001 07:42:22 PM, Serialize complete at 03/06/2001 07:42:22 PM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Winmodems are not supported, better to get a system without builtin modems are network cards. Have a look at http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~dkulp/fbsd/laptop.html Also have a look at http://www.linux-notebook.org/laptops/ Because if you can get linux to work on it FreeBSD should not be too hard. Barry Irwin Sent by: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG 03/04/2001 10:10 PM To: Gan Starling cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Can you recommend... On Sun 2001-03-04 (16:38), Gan Starling wrote: > Can you recommend a short list, by MAKE & MODEL of off-the-shelf > low-to-mid priced LAPTOP computers from any internet or > bricks-and-mortar source? Vendors like Gateway have contracts with > Microsoft and won't admit of anything Unix-ish. > > I wish to first buy a supported laptop and then install FreeBSD on it. > > I have the list of supported devices, but I don't trust the sales staff > of any store...for good and sufficient reason based upon sad past > experience. I have just got an HP Omnibook xe3 2116, which I'm quite happy with, the nic is supported in the later 4.2-Stable sources, and there is a patch available for the soundcard. X works fine, although took a little tweeking. Only thing I have not got going is the Onboard winmodem. This is apparently the same hardware as the 2306 currently advertised on the HP site. Barry -- ANSI Std Disclaimer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message