From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 30 20:33:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (Ilsa.StevesCafe.com [205.168.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB7D9155A6 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 20:33:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fbsd@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (localhost.StevesCafe.com [127.0.0.1]) by Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA26242; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 21:51:23 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199903310451.VAA26242@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 From: Steve Passe To: Andreas Braukmann Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Subnotebook capable of running -current In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 30 Mar 1999 14:48:32 +0200." <19990330144832.A63763@paert.tse-online.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 21:51:23 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, > I want to purchase some kind of 'subnotebook', that has to > be as -current-compatible as possible. > > I anticipate the crowd whispering "Libretto, ... Libretto", but > I have to say, that I don't like the Libretto very much for its > crude screen resolution. > > Currently I'm tending towards the "Toshiba Portege 3010" > or the "Fujitsu LifeBook B110 Biblo". > > Any experiences with these decices? > > I'm wondering about the CD-drives connected thru a PCMCIA-Card > and FreeBSD-compatible PCMCIA-Network-Cards. I just got my toshiba portege 7020CT yesterday (it took 35 days and 3 reschedules to actually reach my front door!). Loaded 4.0-0306-SNAP and XF86-3.3.3.1 without problems (well, sorta, had to run sysinstall-XF86 config program a half dozen times b4 it worked properly...) This is the big brother to the 3010, 13.1" 1024x768 TFT display, neomagic 2200 chipset. The really nice part is that the main unit has neither floppy or CDROM, making it reasonably small for a 13" display. It comes with an external floppy and port replicator, but I opted for the optional loading dock which comes with floppy, DVDROM, and fxp0 (intel) 10/100 ethernet. So I was able to to do an NFS (ie ethernet) install with the dock network, not needing to deal with pc cards. To load packages I inserted my 3.1R CD into the DVD drive and ran /stand/sysinstall, worked great. I used defrag and fips b4 installing FreeBSD, seems to have worked OK also. I will continue to use m$$ucks for hardware setup till I get a handle on APM and friends. Now I just need some free time to help with the card-bus stuff! -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message