From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Mar 3 16:29: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 972BA37B400 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 16:29:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from webmail.rpi.edu (webmail.rpi.edu [128.113.26.21]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g240SxqZ108428 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 19:29:00 -0500 Message-Id: <200203040029.g240SxqZ108428@mail.rpi.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG From: higgsr@rpi.edu X-Originating-Ip: 128.113.162.139 Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: higgsr@rpi.edu Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 19:28:59 EST X-Mailer: EMUmail 4.00 Subject: Re: STABLE vs. CURRENT for laptops X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) 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 Sun, 03 Mar 2002 14:38:45 +0100 roth@iamexwi.unibe.ch wrote: > > As described in an e-mail I sent a few days ago > > > > > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=254419+0+current/freebsd-mobile > > > > > I'm having problems with my Dell Inspiron 4100 with a Dell TrueMobile > (in > > fact an Orinoco Gold) Mini-PCI card. I am wondering whether or not it > > will help to use 5.0-CURRENT instead of 4.5-STABLE as I am now - is > there > > any new features in 5.0 which could make life with a laptop better or > > easier? > > > > In particular I am thinking of features like: > > > > - being able to fetch the battery status > > - after being in standby mode, sound will still work > > - a remote possibility for my wireless NIC to work again > > I just received my inspirion 4100 with that mini pci card a few days ago. > I also though that current was a nice idea for laptops and installed it, > but threw it right off the disk again. Here's why: Every 10 seconds or > so, the machine seemed to hang for one or two seconds. When that happened > while you were typing, a few chars just got lost. Especially annoying > when typing passwords. > And I had also considerable problems when building ports, the first few > succeeded, but then when I tried to build portupgrade, it hung again > during configure and that was it. > > Granted, this was my first attempt in using current, but I figured that I > am better off with stable. -current is going through massive changes. They are implementing smp (which leads to adventures with cpu scheduling, memory management, etc) along with all of the other things like NEWCARD. -Current is not very friendly to a machine that requires reliability. Check out -arch or http://www.freebsd.org/smp/ for more info. > > As for the TrueMobile card, I am not that far with installing my system. > That card looks like a carbus card, which would mean that there is no go > with stable. I also read somewhere that cardbus support will most likely > not be integrated into the 4.x branch. But I found this: > > http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/163/2001/7/0/6285797/ > > I don't really know what to make of this... could mean the card works > anyway. > > Anyone (John Hay?) got that card working? Is it even possible? > > greets, Tobe > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > Ray Higgs To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message