From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Aug 22 17:58: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from wilson.acpub.duke.edu (wilson.acpub.duke.edu [152.3.233.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 519B237B423 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 17:57:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bobzilla.adsl.duke.edu (bobzilla.adsl.duke.edu [152.16.67.15]) by wilson.acpub.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/Duke-5.0.0) with ESMTP id UAA09554; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 20:57:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from sto@localhost) by bobzilla.adsl.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA06152; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 20:57:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from sto) Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 20:57:48 -0400 From: "Sean O'Connell" To: Christian Peter Gruendemann Cc: FreeBSD mobile Subject: Re: Netgear Re: Reflections on the Sony Vaio F709 (F590K ?) Message-ID: <20000822205748.A6016@stat.Duke.EDU> Reply-To: "Sean O'Connell" References: <200008222111.e7MLBF423146@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from chris.chris@fhtw-berlin.de on Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 02:47:49AM +0200 X-Organization: House of Schmutzli X-Kitties: Bitty Maya CJ Keisha Jacob Hopey X-Hound: Bob X-OS-of-Choice: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Christian Peter Gruendemann stated: : : Hi, : : Today, I tried to install Freebsd 4.0 on a Toshiba Satellite Pro : 4360 notebook with a pcmcia : NetGear FA410 network card. I didn't manage it, and I think the network : card is not supported by FreeBSD 4.0 Release? The Netgear networkcard is : also not mentioned in the handbook. So, The card won't work, right? : : Does anybody know which pcmcia network card will work which the Toshiba : notebook? : : Furthermore, is the Soundsystem (Yamaha YMF744B-R Chip) supported? : : Thanks in advance : Christian- This card should work in later editions of FreeBSD after 4.0-RELEASE. It was badly broken in 4.0-RELEASE (and STABLE up until June). YOu would do better to install from either 4.1-RELEASE or snapshot of -STABLE (see: ftp://releng4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/ for the most recent one). Support for the Yamaha chip was added shortly before 4.1-RELEASE, so a more recent STABLE snapshot outght to give you some noise... I haven't been able to get the Yamaha to play nice with the Linux realplay yet (I believe there are patches in the works ... fingers firmly crossed :), but you should be able to play music cd's and waveplay and maybe xmms (not 100% sure on this). Hope this helps, S PS. You have to be fairly mindful of IRQs when doing the install over the network. Take a good look at your Win9x Device Manager for unused IRQs. -- 1--------01---------01--------01--------01--------01--------01--------0 Sean O'Connell sean@stat.Duke.EDU To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message