From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Jun 23 8:29:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from pebkac.owp.csus.edu (pebkac.owp.csus.edu [130.86.232.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F4CE37B6F2 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 08:29:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu) Received: from localhost (scottj@localhost) by pebkac.owp.csus.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA10134; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 08:29:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 08:29:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Joseph Scott X-Sender: scottj@pebkac.owp.csus.edu To: Wolfgang Kess Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Build in network cards support? In-Reply-To: <20000623105059.A70787@inga.augusta.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Wolfgang Kess wrote: > some Notebook e.g. some Compaq come with build in Ethernet cards. > Is there FreeBSD support? > I was wondering the same thing at one point. We are looking at some Compaq's with built-in ethernet adapters. I found a local CompUSA that also carried these, went down there with the two FreeBSD boot floppies and asked if I could try them out, thinking that if the card comes up detected correctly then it would most likely work. It took a little bit of convincing of manager to let me do it ( their notebooks are locked up ) but he did let me do it. He then proceded to make some lame comment about how it looked like DOS. It was all I could do to keep from telling him that the longer he spoke, the less intelligent he sounded. At any rate, we ended up buying Dell's with out built in ethernet. --- Joseph Scott joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu The Office Of Water Programs - CSU Sacramento To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message