Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 14:54:48 -0700 From: Jim Mock <mij@soupnazi.org> To: Denver Timothy <dlt@mail.freeshell.org> Cc: Denver Timothy <dlt@freeshell.org>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sony R505 Message-ID: <20010923145448.B52078@helios.soupnazi.org> In-Reply-To: <20010923154916.A606@mail.freeshell.org> References: <20010921164708.H530@mail.freeshell.org> <20010923142458.A52078@helios.soupnazi.org> <20010923154916.A606@mail.freeshell.org>
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On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 at 15:49:16 -0600, Denver Timothy wrote: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 02:24:58PM -0700, Jim Mock wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 at 16:47:08 -0600, Denver Timothy wrote: > > > I am seriously looking at laptops-- something small and light that > > > I can put FreeBSD on. > > > > > > I think I have narrowed my search down to two: > > > > > > Sony R505: This one looks neat, but information seems to be > > > greatly lacking. From what I have been able to read, the Intel > > > 815 chipset stuff may make this one too incompatible to be useful. > > > > I've got an R505TE, and FreeBSD works great on it. The i815 works > > fine with X 4 (I haven't tried X 3). > > I can't find it again, but I read a post from somone the other day > that said he had R505 and, basically, it worked great. The only real > complaint that he mentioned was that APM didn't work. Had any problems > with that? That was probably me. APM reports no battery, but it does work if you pull the AC plug. > How about the network interface? fxp0 > What version are you running? FreeBSD helios.soupnazi.org 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #0: Fri Sep 14 15:26:35 PDT 2001 jim@helios.soupnazi.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HELIOS i386 - jim -- jim mock <mij@soupnazi.org> tech writer | iXsystems, Inc. http://soupnazi.org/ work: jim@ixsystems.net | jim@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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