From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 17 09:48:53 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EB9637B401 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 09:48:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pimout1-ext.prodigy.net (pimout1-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.63.77]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4019E43FBD for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 09:48:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from metrol@metrol.net) Received: from metlap (adsl-67-121-60-9.dsl.anhm01.pacbell.net [67.121.60.9]) h3HGmovR407912 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 12:48:50 -0400 From: Michael Collette To: FreeBSD Mailing Lists Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 09:48:44 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304170948.44546.metrol@metrol.net> Subject: USB and JPilot X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 16:48:53 -0000 Have a friend who is looking to purchase a new laptop to run FreeBSD on. The most likely purchase for him is one of the R Series Thinkpads, as it's a pretty good mix of what he's looking for. My primary concern for his purchase on this is that these laptops do not come with a standard serial port. USB only. He heavily relies on JPilot and a serial connection to his Handspring Visor via pilot-link. Unfortunately, I can't test the setup with USB at this time as he's lost his USB cradle. I know there's a uvisor tweak in the kernel these days, and pilot-link is supposed to support USB now. Still, I was wondering if anyone has actually gotten this working, and reliable? Thanks, -- "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx