From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Jun 8 17:41:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from squall.waterspout.com (squall.waterspout.com [208.13.56.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 184C137B400 for ; Sat, 8 Jun 2002 17:41:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by squall.waterspout.com (Postfix, from userid 1050) id 920DB9B13; Sat, 8 Jun 2002 19:41:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 19:41:25 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: "Michael W. Collette" Cc: Will Andrews , FreeBSD Mailing Lists Subject: Re: Repost: PCMCIA card for Vaio, advice needed Message-ID: <20020609004125.GK53809@squall.waterspout.com> Mail-Followup-To: "Michael W. Collette" , Will Andrews , FreeBSD Mailing Lists References: <200206081623.18567.metrol@metrol.net> <20020609000508.GJ53809@squall.waterspout.com> <200206081716.47121.metrol@metrol.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200206081716.47121.metrol@metrol.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.26i Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 05:16:47PM -0700, Michael W. Collette wrote: > This user spends about 95% of his time on some kind of Ethernet setup. I just > want to make sure that when he goes out of town that I'm able to provide him > with some means of getting a dial up to work. A simple card swap wouldn't be > a bad deal at all for him. That's how I do it currently. I use: - Cisco Aironet 350 (an(4)) for WiFi (98%+ of the time) - Linksys PCM100 (ed(4)) for wired 802.3 - a really old modem pc-card that works great on FreeBSD > I doubt I'll have the time to play with CURRENT on this thing. It's an old > k6-500, and I know compiling is going to be time consuming on it. I don't > want to have to spend days trying to get him outta my hair :) Getting X, > sound, and all that working is going to be bad enough. Still beats the heck > outta dealing with Windows viruses, or the screwy upgrade path the Linux > distros provide. You know, you can install a -CURRENT snapshot from snapshots.jp.freebsd.org like any other release. You could also try 5.0-DP1 which is only 2 months old... Regards, -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message