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From: Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@giovannelli.it>
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Guido van Rooij wrote:

> >  - The pcic type (PCMCIA interface chip).  Toshiba, Dell, NEC, Sharp,
> >    and IBM all use parts that are compatible with FreeBSD.  Acer (at
> >    least) does not.  YMMV; if at all possible, boot a FreeBSD kernel
> >    built with pcic support in order to find out what you're looking at.

I haven't problems on TI (texas instrument, now acer) travelmate
series...
I use a TI 6160 that works like a charm with FreeBSD-current, Xfree
3.3.1, Xaccel 3.1. (Neomagic 128zv, 800x600x65000). 
The pcmcia works too (modem and ethernet) , even if not the Sandisk
compact flash , so I couldn't get the pictures made with my digital
camera , <sigh> .

The other laptop I have is an old Travelmate tm4000 (486sx 25mhz, 8mb
ram, 120mb hd) which works with FreeBSD very well. It made for a lot of
time the web server for www.giovannelli.it :-).
And has scsi controller too :-) 



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Regards...

Gianmarco
"Unix expert since yesterday"

http://www2.masternet.it