From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Sep 9 9:49:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from pebkac.owp.csus.edu (pebkac.owp.csus.edu [130.86.232.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6936715177 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 09:49:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu) Received: from owp.csus.edu (mothra.ecs.csus.edu [130.86.76.220]) by pebkac.owp.csus.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA53569; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 09:49:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <37D7E506.16902409@owp.csus.edu> Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 16:49:10 +0000 From: Joseph Scott X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Booth Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: winbook & FreeBSD References: <37D6E02E.B22B4631@owp.csus.edu> <37D7103A.7E90A6E9@austin.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David Booth wrote: > > I have 3.2 stable running on an older winbook (an XP5). No problems with video or > network. I have not been interested in modem or sound so have not tried anything > with them. The AmbiCom 10baseT card works fine although you can purchase a little > cheaper than winbook sells them for. Shop around on the net. I think that I paid > about $40 from J&R computers. That's good to know. I was hoping to get a 10/100 card since our network at the office is all switched 100. Although a 10 card that works beats a 10/100 one that doesn't anyday :-) > > One caution about winbook is that they sometimes do not deliver what you order and > it a hassle sending it back to get it right (more than once.) I have heard this > from others and my experience has been consistent with this. They do seem to be a > good value though. > Hummmm. That wouldn't be very fun. I'll keep this in mind, thanks. -- Joseph Scott joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu Office Of Water Programs - CSU Sacramento To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message