From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Aug 23 14:35:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA24821 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 14:35:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA24816; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 14:35:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA04520; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 15:34:56 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA19356; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 15:34:55 -0600 Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 15:34:55 -0600 Message-Id: <199808232134.PAA19356@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Brett Glass Cc: Craig Johnston , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad 560E TFT -> $1200 In-Reply-To: <199808230426.WAA28288@lariat.lariat.org> References: <199808230426.WAA28288@lariat.lariat.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass writes: > Oh, one other thing about the ThinkPad worth noting: the internal modem and > sound are done by an MWave chip. There are NO FreeBSD drivers for this, so > neither the synth nor the modem will work. You'll need to get PCMCIA cards > for these functions. Note, we benchmarked the internal MWAVE modem vs. a 28.8K PCMCIA Sportster, and even thought the modem claimed to do 33.6 the Sportster *ate* it for lunch. It acted like a 9600 baud modem, although at times we could get burst of high speed. In short, I was not impressed with it, so all of our ThinkPad users now have external modems (or ethernet/modem combos). Nate ps. None of the above tests were done under FreeBSD, obviously. pps. We were running the most recent patches from IBM as well. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message