From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Oct 7 4:47:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail50.fg.online.no (mail50-s.fg.online.no [148.122.161.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41FDE37B405 for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 04:47:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from osltoringol-hpc (ti51a12-0254.dialup.online.no [130.67.240.254]) by mail50.fg.online.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA06373 for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 13:47:21 +0200 (MET DST) From: "Torfinn Ingolfsen" To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 13:41:20 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: ThinkPads, PS2 and tpctl? (Was: Re: recommended notebook for FreeBSD) Message-ID: <3BC05B80.9924.5B3CA81@localhost> In-reply-to: <200110051622.f95GMOk12754@ptavv.es.net> References: Your message of "Fri, 05 Oct 2001 10:44:03 EDT." X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kevin Oberman writes: > > First, ThinkPads use a separate utility, ps2, to set up most BIOS > options. Only a couple of things are adjustable from the boot setup > mode. While ps2 will not run under FreeBSD, you can make a bootable OS > floppy with the ps2.exe file on it (if you have Windows on your 600E) > or download a floppy image from the IBM web site. (Sorry, but I don't > have the URL, but it's in the archives and not too hard to find on the site.) Maybe somebody could look at tpctl (http://tpctl.sourceforge.net/) and see if it would work under Linux emulation, or even better, port it to FreeBSD. -- Torfinn Ingolfsen, Norway To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message