From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 30 9:26:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from logatome.francenet.fr (logatome-2.francenet.fr [193.149.96.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4B8437B672 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 09:26:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from e-masson@kisoft-services.com) Received: from kisoft-services.com (pppA271.francenet.fr [193.149.100.181]) by logatome.francenet.fr (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e2UHQ6W79017; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 19:26:06 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <38E38DEB.B176E313@kisoft-services.com> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 19:24:59 +0200 From: Eric Masson Organization: Kisoft Services X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [fr] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: andy Cc: Allen Cleveland , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ibm thinkpad References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >is there anyone running fbsd4.0 on such a laptop? Yes, my 390 runs 3.4-STABLE and will soon run RELENG-4. I've also heard of 770, 600 and so on. Issues on Thinkpads can be found in the archives of mobile, questions and stable http://www.FreeBSD.org/search >the problem is that I doubt about the ability of freebsd to >discern such a sophisticated device as pcmci EtherJet network adapter. Try a more sophisticated OS ;) > so, do I need to use Tatsumi Hasokawa's package > to get it working? (as it was for 2.* and 3.*) Haven't heard of PAO for RELENG-4 (correct me if wrong) > the only information regarding my IBM EtherJet NIC consists of > one string > "PCMCIA ethernet cards from IBM and National semiconducter are also > supported" Make a minimal install on your TP, then use pccardc dumpcis and see if any entry in pccard.conf.sample matches. Using FBSD on a laptop still implies some homework and searches (less and less that's right, thanks to mobile and nomad developpers) So search the archives, try and report problems if you encounter any. Regards Eric Masson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message