From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Mar 16 6:10:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC98C37BA01 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 06:10:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p52-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.117]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id XAA00233; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 23:10:30 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <38D0E90B.A8CB65E3@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 23:00:43 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Losh Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Looking for laptops References: <200003150751.AAA85374@harmony.village.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Warner Losh wrote: > > I'm looking to acquire a couple of laptops for testing. It has become > clear to me that my VAIO is just too friendly to the current code and > I need some active hostility that only a Dell Lattitude or Compaq > Presario can offer :-). To that end, I'm looking to purchase/trade > second hand laptops for a reasonable amount. I don't have much money > to spend on this project, so last year's models are what I had in > mind. Or even the year before's. MMmmm... my Presario 1621 works just fine, thank you. APM works (power off & suspend), the CardBus slots work fine with PCMCIA cards, even sound is working. Modem isn't working, and I think once it did, but my connection, nowadays, is through the serial port. My version is pre-USB, but, given my overall experience, I don't think I'd have any problems. Of course, there are other Presarios, and then there are the Armadas. > I may consider broken machines that work well enough for my testing > purposes. Bad lcd, but working vga port, for example. They do need > to be able to boot FreeBSD and have the ability to insert/remove > pccard/cardbus cards, apm suspend functioning and ideally would > operate on battery power. That last one isn't absolutely required. > It would also be nice if they had enough disk for a make installworld > to fit with about 20MB + 4x RAM to spare (for crash dumps, swap and > the like). I think that puts the lower limit at about 600MB. Mmmmm... what exactly do you mean by "hostility", then? :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone bind them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message