From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon May 28 12:25: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.panix.com (mail3.panix.com [166.84.0.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EE9337B43C for ; Mon, 28 May 2001 12:25:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from evenson@panix.com) Received: from panix6.panix.com (panix6.panix.com [166.84.0.231]) by mail3.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B057981D9; Mon, 28 May 2001 15:25:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from evenson@localhost) by panix6.panix.com (8.8.8/8.7.1/PanixN1.0) id PAA10984; Mon, 28 May 2001 15:25:01 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: panix6.panix.com: evenson set sender to evenson@panix.com using -f To: David Bremner Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: thinkpad 570 success References: <15121.34432.377447.373927@convex.cs.unb.ca> From: Mark Evenson Date: 28 May 2001 15:25:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: David Bremner's message of "Sun, 27 May 2001 19:58:08 -0300" Message-ID: Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0805 (Gnus v5.8.5) Emacs/20.7 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 David Bremner writes: > I have prowled the archives, but not come away with a firm impression > one way or the other. > > I am thinking of converting my laptop from Linux to FreeBSD. > > I currently run 4.3-(Release|Stable) on two desktops. > > I guess my main concerns are APM and support for the Linksys PCLM56 > combo ethernet+modem card. > > Can anyone supply any success/horror stories? I sucessfully ran FreeBSD 4.0 - 4.2 on a ThinkPad 570 about a year ago. Everything worked well (including audio and suspend/resume). I believe the only gotcha resides in *not* setting the pcic device to polling mode, but giving it a specific interupt. I no longer have the ThinkPad 570 as I had to give it back to my employer when I left last summer. -- Mark Evenson "A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare to it now." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message