From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Jan 11 15:00:28 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA14552 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 15:00:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vaio.ispra.webweaving.org ([198.243.60.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA14540 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 15:00:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dirkx@webweaving.org) Received: from webweaving.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vaio.ispra.webweaving.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA00756; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 17:56:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dirkx@webweaving.org) X-MX-Masquarade: Passed MX vaio.ispra.webweaving.org at Vaio / WebWeaving X-No-Spam: Neither the originator(s) address(es) nor the Receipient(s) addresses are to be used for unsolicited commercial email (spam) as a per message fee is incurred for both inbound and outbound traffic Message-ID: <369A8184.137A3AA0@webweaving.org> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 17:56:04 -0500 From: "Dirk-Willem van Gulik (vaio)" Organization: Web Weaving Consultancy X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: nl, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jimbo CC: Ollivier Robert , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VAIO 505F vs Toshiba 3015CT References: <19990111155013.O49737@caerdonn.eurocontrol.fr> <369A2371.19BE5152@wt.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jimbo wrote: > I have a sony notebook. It has worked great. i use XFree86 3.3.3 and the > neomagic support suffices. > > > - do I need PAO or is CURRENT enough ? > Use -stable(2.2.8) the scsi card that Sony uses is an adaptec one which > isn't supported in -current yet. > > > - does the hibernation feature work (saving mem on disk) ? > I haven't tried that. > With PAO it does (zzz). > > - what are the differences between 505F & 505G (the Sony site is not that > > precise either) ? > I don't know-maybe a marketing thing, got to have something new for > people to buy. > > > - what are the different prices around ? > Vaiodirect has the 505F listed for $1699. > > > - can I install without a CD-ROM (by FTP/NFS) ? > I installed the base operating system via the built in modem (left it on > all night) and installed the rest via the PCMCIA network card that I > had. > I've done it with a floppy, POA and a PCMCIA ethernet card. see http://www.webweaving.org/vaio for details. > > - what about Cardbus / PCMCIA support in FreeBSD ? > Compile the laptop kernel, and add sound support. I was able to use my > Linksys ethernet card afterwards 3cXXX card, Flash cards, SlimSCSI, etc, the whole range works for me, identical to my old thinkpad. > > > Sony lists the 505F at around 1700US$ and Toshiba the 3015CT at > > 1800US$. The Sony 505G seem to be more expensive (why?). > It looks cool :) Dw To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message