From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 11 14:15:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA11005 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 14:15:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from icicle.winternet.com (icicle.winternet.com [198.174.169.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA11000 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 14:15:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nrahlstr@mail.winternet.com) Received: (from adm@localhost) by icicle.winternet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA06144; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 16:14:55 -0500 (CDT) Received: from tundra.winternet.com(198.174.169.11) by icicle.winternet.com via smap (V2.0) id xma006100; Fri, 11 Sep 98 16:14:33 -0500 Received: from localhost (nrahlstr@localhost) by tundra.winternet.com (8.8.7/8.8.4) with SMTP id QAA19669; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 16:14:32 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: tundra.winternet.com: nrahlstr owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 16:14:31 -0500 (CDT) From: Nathan Ahlstrom Reply-To: nrahlstr@FreeBSD.ORG To: Bryan Parks cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on laptops? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Please excuse me. I was unable to find any information on the internet > about running FreeBSD on a laptop. I have worked with Linux for about a The URL below is a collection of laptop hardware that FreeBSD is known to run on and any troubles that may be encountered. http://www.jp.freebsd.org/PAO/latest/docs/LAPTOP_SURVEY/LTS.txt Also you may wish to subscribe to the freebsd-mobile mailing list or read the archives for this list. > site), but I want to know more about PCMCIA slots and such. Where might I > find this sort of information, if it indeed exists? I think that recent releases should run out of the box on many laptops. You may have to tweak sone configuration information in the /etc/pccard.conf file. Also multi-function cards (i.e. modem/ethernet combo's) do not work at this time. > (FreeBSD convert) Cool. :) Good Luck, Nathan Nathan Ahlstrom nrahlstr@winternet.com Run FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message