From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Oct 11 17: 6: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9797814A03 for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 17:05:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA31471; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 09:33:25 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 09:33:25 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Bill Fumerola Cc: Peter Wemm , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Docking stations (was: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/sio sio.c) Message-ID: <19991012093325.G78191@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19991011105346.I78191@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Monday, 11 October 1999 at 10:34:53 -0400, Bill Fumerola wrote: > On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> Well, I'm still in the running, but you need to be more specific than >> that. I'm pretty sure the Latitude series had more than one docking >> station. Mine's a CPi, for example. > > Ironically, I put a square 'Powered by FreeBSD' sticker over the plate > that says what model it is. > > [.. some time passes ..] > > The docking station is a C Dock II, and several laptops around the > office (CP, CPi) all work in it. Good. BTW, you know that you shouldn't hot plug the docking station? It's supposed to be hot pluggable, but the capacitors in the laptop draw so much surge current that they tend to burn out the connectors. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message