From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Aug 13 0:57:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mordor.xti.org (mordor.xti.org [193.212.232.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 684D614DB0 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 00:57:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from delta@xti.org) Received: (qmail 20011 invoked by uid 1001); 13 Aug 1999 07:57:20 -0000 Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 09:57:20 +0200 From: Terje Elde To: Christopher Masto Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which laptop? Any comment on the vaios? Message-ID: <19990813095720.D19818@mordor.xti.org> References: <19990812102308.C27376@mordor.xti.org> <19990812103622.A4343@netmonger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Q8BnQc91gJZX4vDc; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <19990812103622.A4343@netmonger.net>; from Christopher Masto on Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 10:36:22AM -0400 X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Editor: Vim http://www.vim.org/ X-URL: http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/ X-IRC: Delta_ Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --Q8BnQc91gJZX4vDc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Christopher Masto (chris@netmonger.net) [990812 14:36]: > Here's another beyond-satisfied 505 user. I bought the TX. Now the > TR is out, which is identical except that it comes with the 7-hour > battery and costs $200 less. Cool, 7 hour should last for a while :) > As has been said, everything works. And I'm not running PAO.. it all > works under -current. (Except for the firewire, but I don't > particularly care) I can even hotsync my pilot with the IR port. Which software supports the pilots? And which pilots are supported? > Installation was done by booting the floppy with the supplied external > floppy drive, and installing over a network with a (non-supplied) 3c589. > I now have a Linksys, which is considerably less expensive and works > just fine. You installed 2.2.8? > One note.. there are new "Z505" models out which have a bigger screen, > lower battery life, builtin ethernet, etc. Apparently they have gone > to using winmodems in them. The regular 505 line has a NON-winmodem, > which works just fine with FreeBSD. =46rom jdp.com I get informed that they have real modems. Terje Elde --Q8BnQc91gJZX4vDc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: K9dv+OTkfm3S9KZEdvAPc82RtU0ky0n9 iQA/AwUBN7PP30uepINK4/UhEQL6cACg/kfO6M/S/oJ8LDAz0yKPBKajl34AoPPf +xmIfLRRrPsMXnK/DO87qUJB =eCll -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Q8BnQc91gJZX4vDc-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message