From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 29 11:56:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5505616A4CE for ; Sat, 29 May 2004 11:56:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from outmx009.isp.belgacom.be (outmx009.isp.belgacom.be [195.238.3.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A62DA43D3F for ; Sat, 29 May 2004 11:56:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from geert@lori.mine.nu) Received: from outmx009.isp.belgacom.be (localhost [127.0.0.1]) with ESMTP id i4TIu4Ml007409 for ; Sat, 29 May 2004 20:56:04 +0200 (envelope-from ) Received: from lori.mine.nu (199-55.240.81.adsl.skynet.be [81.240.55.199]) with ESMTP id i4TItx1g007369; Sat, 29 May 2004 20:55:59 +0200 (envelope-from ) Received: by lori.mine.nu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 569E6A31; Sat, 29 May 2004 20:55:49 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 20:55:48 +0200 From: Geert Hendrickx To: jdusek@cs.uiowa.edu Message-ID: <20040529185548.GA77299@lori.mine.nu> References: <1085855873.40b8d881c853a@webmail.divms.uiowa.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1085855873.40b8d881c853a@webmail.divms.uiowa.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i X-PGP-Key: http://www.win.ua.ac.be/~s005085/gnupgkey.txt X-Accept-Language: nl,en cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Compaq hardware X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 18:56:10 -0000 > So, what do I do now? This machine is hardly my first choice, but it's a gift > and I'm stuck with it. It's got nice hardware, but there just seems to be no way > around the Compaq curse... I have FreeBSD 4.9 running on an old Compaq (don't know what model though), and I never had any problem with it. Nothing unusual. GH