From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Jan 15 9:49:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from jupiter.linuxengine.net (jupiter2.linuxengine.net [209.61.188.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BAE537B419 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 09:49:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from jupiterweb.commercevault.com (jupiterweb.commercevault.com [209.61.179.16] (may be forged)) by jupiter.linuxengine.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g0FHm4K24864; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 11:48:04 -0600 Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 11:48:03 -0600 (CST) From: John Utz X-X-Sender: To: Thomas Fiebig Cc: Subject: Re: HP Omnibook 600 CT In-Reply-To: <20020115084952.C1C313E41@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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