Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 11:48:03 -0600 (CST) From: John Utz <john@utzweb.net> To: Thomas Fiebig <tfie@stanley.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de> Cc: <mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: HP Omnibook 600 CT Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201151137280.23738-100000@jupiter.linuxengine.net> In-Reply-To: <20020115084952.C1C313E41@CRWdog.demon.co.uk>
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heavens to betsy.....what a singularly unique piece of hardware! fwiw, the 800ct is very cheap on ebay.... i got mine for $us205 with 32M of ram. it now works fine with FreeBSD i run X, use the network, etc. of course, you already own the 600 and it might be a fun project if that sorta thing tickles your fancy....but it seems that it would be a *big* project... On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Andy Sparrow wrote: > > > yes I'm sure, that they are compiled in the kernel. Error messages arrive, if I > > try to start e.g. pccardd or moused. I haven't changed the generic kernel at > > these points! But if helpful, I can send the kernel config file... > > Wow. There's a separate "pop-up mouse" Linux driver project for this laptop: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/obmouse/ > > and one here too that makes it behave like a serial mouse (don't know if it's > actually the same or related): > > http://www.opensource.co.kr/opensource/proj.php3?projcode=7168&page=6 > > And *ouch! that stung!*: this link (for Linux) suggests that the PCMCIA > controller is HP-proprietary with no specs available to boot: > > http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~fleck/iowa-lab/omnibook.html > > Oh yeh, & it seems to be ISA-only. Oh, and it's not Y2K-compliant either... > > > there appears another special problem of my wonderful OB 600 CT: Nobody knows, > > how to get into the BIOS (if possible) of that notebook. Any ideas for that? > > Standard buttons (DEL,ESC, CTRL F1, CTRL F2) don't work. > > HP apparently claim that this isn't possible according to the Omnibook FAQ: > > http://www.eberl.com/omnibook/omnibook.faq > > Golly. That's fsck'd. > > The upgrade-to-Win-95 FAQ for this thing says that a BIOS upgrade is a must > for this, however (and provides APM support, apparently). > > Good luck! (sure you wouldn't rather have one of those tiny Sony things? ;-) > > AS > > -- John L. Utz III john@utzweb.net Idiocy is the Impulse Function in the Convolution of Life To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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