From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 6 19:48:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from goblin.apana.org.au (goblin.apana.org.au [203.3.126.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E01C37B718 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 19:48:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by goblin.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA18828; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 13:48:06 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Received: from bryden.apana.org.au(203.3.126.129), claiming to be "roadrunner" via SMTP by goblin.apana.org.au, id smtpdd18825; Wed Mar 7 13:47:53 2001 Message-ID: <008a01c0a6b9$82a6bd60$0200a8c0@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: "Barry Irwin" , "Robert L Sowders" Cc: "Gan Starling" , References: Subject: Re: Can you recommend... Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 13:48:42 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Someone was saying in this list some weeks ago that "some" PCMCIA modems are "proper"modems. I certainly have never met such a beast but as I recall the person or persons claiming to know about them was / were some kind of guru around here, so there is probably some truth in the story. . ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert L Sowders" To: "Barry Irwin" Cc: "Gan Starling" ; ; Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 1:42 PM Subject: Re: Can you recommend... > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message