Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 13:27:38 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: Kenneth Mays <kmays2000@hotmail.com>, Nick.Barnes@pobox.com, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: recommended notebook for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011006132738.F13748@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200110051622.f95GMOk12754@ptavv.es.net>; from oberman@es.net on Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 09:22:24AM -0700 References: <LAW2-F861MfHGJDmOnz0001fb89@hotmail.com> <200110051622.f95GMOk12754@ptavv.es.net>
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On Friday, 5 October 2001 at 9:22:24 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> From: "Kenneth Mays" <kmays2000@hotmail.com> >> Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 10:44:03 -0400 >> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG >> >> A recommended laptop for FreeBSD v4.4 is the IBM Thinkpad 600E (Model: >> 2645-4au) series. I was testing for v4.3 and 4.4 of FreeBSD. Zero problems. > > While I think my 600E (2645-5AU) is a great platform for FreeBSD, > there are a couple of gotchas that hit the new user. Once fixed, they > are easy to forget about (with the exception of sound). > > First, ThinkPads use a separate utility, ps2, to set up most BIOS > options. Only a couple of things are adjustable from the boot setup > mode. While ps2 will not run under FreeBSD, you can make a bootable OS > floppy with the ps2.exe file on it (if you have Windows on your 600E) > or download a floppy image from the IBM web site. (Sorry, but I don't > have the URL, but it's in the archives and not too hard to find on the > site.) I don't know the 600E, which is not a current production machine, but the newer machines don't need a separate setup utility. I suspect that most of the other comments are related to this particular model as well. > To get the sound working configure the kernel with: > device pcm0 at isa? port 0x52c irq 5 drq 1 flags 0x10 > and do not include "options PNPBIOS" in your configuration. > > Before building the kernel, run the following script: > #!/bin/sh > perl -pi.orig -e "s@(dev/sound/pci/csa.c\s+optional pcm)@#\1@g;s@(csapcm.c\s+optional) pcm@\1 csa pcm@g" /sys/conf/files > > Note that this script must be re-run every time you update your > sources! Hmm. I don't have time to look at this, but I don't think this is the correct solution to the problem you're seeing. > That's about it. While I look forward to better PCMCIA support in V5 > (about a year from now), I doubt that any laptop has more functional > features than the 600E including the internal modem and audio. I > routinely run with either a Xircom or Orinoco network card. (NOTE: the > Xircom CardBus cards are NOT supported yet!) Some more recent Thinkpads come with a built-in PCI Ethernet card, which is both faster and easier to integrate than the PCMCIA cards. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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