From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Aug 23 14:39:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA25509 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 14:39:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA25500; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 14:39:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA04569; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 15:38:17 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA19385; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 15:38:16 -0600 Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 15:38:16 -0600 Message-Id: <199808232138.PAA19385@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: alexandr@mail.eecis.udel.edu Cc: Brett Glass , Craig Johnston , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: IBM Thinkpad 560E TFT -> $1200 In-Reply-To: <199808230840.BAA13951@hub.freebsd.org> References: <199808230840.BAA13951@hub.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > : Oh, one other thing about the ThinkPad worth noting: the internal modem and > : sound are done by an MWave chip. There are NO FreeBSD drivers for this, so > : neither the synth nor the modem will work. You'll need to get PCMCIA cards > : for these functions. > > Actually, I don't think that this is a problem with the 560s. They > don't have a built-in modem and if I recall correctly, the sound-chip is > a Crystal Audio jobbie (which if I remember is SB compatible). > > The only StinkPads you have to worry about are the 75x/76x/770 models > which have the integrated MWave devices. Ahh, you are right. It was a 755CX that has the built in modem that sucked. :) (Yes, we like ThinkPads at SRI. :) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message