From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Mar 15 0: 4:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from ns.skylink.it (ns.skylink.it [194.177.113.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89B7237B8C6 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 00:04:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dirkx@webweaving.org) Received: from kim.ispra.webweaving.org (va-187.skylink.it [194.185.55.187]) by ns.skylink.it (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA03945; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 09:05:33 +0100 Received: from webweaving.org (burly.ispra.webweaving.org [10.0.0.21]) by kim.ispra.webweaving.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA12877; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 08:03:20 GMT X-Passed: MX on Ispra.WebWeaving.org Wed, 15 Mar 2000 08:03:20 GMT and masked X-No-Spam: Neither the receipients nor the senders email address(s) are to be used for Unsolicited (Commercial) Email without the explicit written consent of either party; as a per-message fee is incurred for inbound and outbound traffic to the originator. Posted-Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 08:03:20 GMT Message-ID: <38CF43C8.F84D89A8@webweaving.org> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 09:03:22 +0100 From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik Reply-To: dirkx@webweaving.org Organization: WebWeaving Consultancy X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 (Macintosh; I; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Losh Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Looking for laptops References: <200003150751.AAA85374@harmony.village.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Would you have use for an old IBM 701CS butterfly thinkpad ? Unfortunately it is rather friendly to PCI, even with early 2.1/PAO all and everthing has always worked. Dw Warner Losh wrote: > > I hate to post such a brazenly commercial "wanted to buy" to -mobile, > but I figured I'd get the best deals possible from this forum. > > I'm looking to acquire a couple of laptops for testing. It has become > clear to me that my VAIO is just too friendly to the current code and > I need some active hostility that only a Dell Lattitude or Compaq > Presario can offer :-). To that end, I'm looking to purchase/trade > second hand laptops for a reasonable amount. I don't have much money > to spend on this project, so last year's models are what I had in > mind. Or even the year before's. > > I may consider broken machines that work well enough for my testing > purposes. Bad lcd, but working vga port, for example. They do need > to be able to boot FreeBSD and have the ability to insert/remove > pccard/cardbus cards, apm suspend functioning and ideally would > operate on battery power. That last one isn't absolutely required. > It would also be nice if they had enough disk for a make installworld > to fit with about 20MB + 4x RAM to spare (for crash dumps, swap and > the like). I think that puts the lower limit at about 600MB. > > If you have an old laptop gathering dust that you'd like to contribute > to the cause, or that you'd make a good deal for me, please contact me > off the list. > > Warner > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message