From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 11 12:37:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from inc.net (mailhost.inc.net [204.95.160.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE8D814BE0 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 12:37:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from parrothd@midwest.net) Received: from chi1.nucleusconsulting.com (chi1.nucleusconsulting.com [207.250.168.11]) by inc.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA25836; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 14:33:30 -0600 (CST) Received: from ZIPPY by chi1.nucleusconsulting.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.0.1460.8) id WW3YRJJB; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 14:16:54 -0600 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19991111143156.007ca670@midwest.net> X-Sender: parrothd@midwest.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 14:31:56 -0600 To: John Reynolds~ , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Jonathan E. Lyons" Subject: Re: Quick question on IBM ThinkPad In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19991111131906.007ccd40@midwest.net> References: <14379.2745.562828.28472@hip186.ch.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Oops...Almost forgot, IBM screwed us and used cheap winmodems for the builtin modems, so you can only use it in Win98/NT, not that it works that well anyways. I bought a PC modem to replace the internal one..(Hmmm...Maybe the thinkpad wasn't the best choice after all...) gAt 01:19 PM 11/11/99 -0600, Jonathan E. Lyons wrote: >Hi, > >I have the Thinkpad 600 w/128 Megs ram, the only problem I had was during >the install with all 128 megs of ram installed. The system will begin to >probe for devices then hang/lockup after probing for pnp devices. You >should just remove the 64 meg chip(bottum of latop, under small cover) then >you can use the PAO boot floppy, which will allows you to use a PCMIA >ethernet card(as long as it't supported), then once you have the system up >and running you need to add > >options "MAXMEM=(130496) > >to the PAO kernel config file, recompile, reinstall the other 64 megs of >ram and everything should work. > > > > > >At 11:28 AM 11/11/99 -0700, John Reynolds~ wrote: >> >>hello all, >> >>I have the opportunity to get an IBM ThinkPad here as my next "PC." I of >>course want to run -STABLE on it ;). However, I remember seeing traffic on >>these lists stating that the IBM ThinkPad is "troublesome" for FreeBSD in >>both X configuration and network interface (unsupported device or something). >> >>Can somebody please respond regarding this laptop? >> >>BTW, I currently can't reach the search engine on www.freebsd.org through our >>firewall (???) which is why I'm mailing to this list. Please respond as soon >>as convenient 'cuz my boss wants an "answer" quickly(tm). >> >>Thanks!!! >> >>-Jr >> >>-- >>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- =-= >>| John Reynolds CEG, CCE, Next Generation Flows, HLA | >>| Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 868-6512 | >>| jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | >>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- =-= >> >> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> >> > >Jonathan E. Lyons >parrothd@midwest.net Nucleus Consulting >ICQ # 14226912 www.nucleusconsulting.com >Cell # 773-251-1967 A+, MCSE, CCNA, FreeBSD! >Pager # 7732511967@mobile.att.net > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Jonathan E. Lyons parrothd@midwest.net Nucleus Consulting ICQ # 14226912 www.nucleusconsulting.com Cell # 773-251-1967 A+, MCSE, CCNA, FreeBSD! Pager # 7732511967@mobile.att.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message