From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Mar 28 15:16:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from slarti.muc.de (slarti.muc.de [193.149.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D769937C036 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 15:16:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhs@jhs.muc.de) Received: (qmail 9196 invoked from network); 28 Mar 2000 23:22:40 -0000 Received: from jhs.muc.de (193.149.49.84) by slarti.muc.de with SMTP; 28 Mar 2000 23:22:40 -0000 Received: from park.jhs.no_domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jhs.muc.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA06781 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 22:28:49 GMT (envelope-from jhs@park.jhs.no_domain) Message-Id: <200003282228.WAA06781@jhs.muc.de> To: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0 a severe disappointment From: "Julian Stacey" Organization: Vector Systems Ltd - Unix & Internet consultancy X-Web: http://www.jhs.muc.de http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/ In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 22 Mar 2000 19:24:06 PST." <24210.953781846@zippy.cdrom.com> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 00:28:49 +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Well, I can't obviously say that 4.0 works great on everyone's laptop > since such is clearly not the case for you. All I can say is that > it's a definite improvement as far as my Sony VAIO laptop is > concerned; I now have working networking, sound and my pccard modem > even works now. My point? YMMV! > - Jordan 4.0-RELEASE is stable on my Toshiba T4600C i486 w. 12M, including pcmcia 3C589 Ether, X11, NFS+AMD etc. ( Admittedly the install was non standard (to reduce internet fetch cost): ... Flip out the (Tosh. standard size) 200M drive (with an entire only-gzip-aout 3.3 system). Install a 1.5Gig drive. FTP 4.0 floppies from ftp.freebsd, create FSs on disc, use fixit flop, PL-IP ftp a bin.tgz of current from a week before release, ftp tar of old etc/, PLIP ftp 4-REL-src.tgz, make world, config ether etc) Julian - Julian Stacey http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/ http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message