From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 30 10:47:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.cybcon.com (mail.cybcon.com [216.190.188.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32F9937B514 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 10:47:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wwoods@cybcon.com) Received: from laptop.cybcon.com (william@tc1-11.cybcon.com [63.163.56.12]) by mail.cybcon.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA00233; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 10:48:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <61B452CEA1F9D11195A600A024C65C6902902523@exchange2.activevoice.com> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 10:47:22 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: bwoods2@uswest.net From: William Woods To: Todd Stone Subject: RE: Question about FreeBSD on a laptop Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.org" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, I run FreeBSD 4.0 -stable on a Thinkpad 600E. The setup is 128meg ram, PCMCIA NIC, PCMCIA Modem (It has an internal modem, but, alas its a winmodem). Seems to work fine for me. I do compiling/devel work on it and use Code-Forge for my devel enviroment. I don't have sound on it although it has a built in sound card.(It may work, I havent tried and I really dont care if it makes noises or not :) I also connect it to a USB printer and scanner at times. The APM works fine for me. Hot-swap is a no-go though.. It has an internal 20X cdrom and an external floppy that can be traded with the cdrom in the bay. I have had no problems with it, works so well, I bought a second one also. I currently use it on 3 different lans, along with dialup. On 30-Mar-00 Todd Stone wrote: > Hello, > > I am looking at buying a laptop. I'd like to consider installing > FreeBSD on it so I can use it for compiling C and C++ programs > during my commute to and from work. I've seen the hardware > supported list, but can you provide a recommendation for any > particular laptop that would be able to run FreeBSD on it? Cost > isn't an issue. > > Thanks, > > Todd Stone > Network Engineer > Quality Assurance > Active Voice Corporation > 206-441-4700 Ext 1411 > Fax: 206-505-0411 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: bwoods2@uswest.net Date: 30-Mar-00 Time: 10:42:13l ---------------------------------- NOTICE TO BULK E-MAILERS: Pursuant to US Code, Title 47, Chapter 5, Subchapter II, 227, and all unsolicited commercial e-mail sent to this address is subject to a download and archival fee in the amount of $500 US To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message