From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Nov 15 9:22: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from Samizdat.uucom.com (samizdat.uucom.com [198.202.217.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EAD7150A0 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 09:21:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cshenton@uucom.com) Received: (from cshenton@localhost) by Samizdat.uucom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA17771; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 12:21:52 -0500 (EST) To: cmonster Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ThinkPad 560 References: User-Agent: SEMI/1.13.3 (Komaiko) FLIM/1.12.5 (Hirahata) Emacs/20.3 (i386-pc-solaris2.7) MULE/4.0 (HANANOEN) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.13.3 - "Komaiko") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Chris Shenton Date: 15 Nov 1999 12:21:51 -0500 In-Reply-To: cmonster's message of "Fri, 12 Nov 1999 16:22:40 -0800" Message-ID: Lines: 44 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/Emacs 20.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 16:22:40 -0800, cmonster said: cmonster> Hi all. I recovered and old ThinkPad 560 10U from my office cmonster> trash pool. I'd really like to put FreeBSD on it. =46rom Trash? Bummer. I have a 560X that has been running 2.2.X and now 3.3-STABLE happily. Especially now that XFree86 supports the NeoMagic video chipset. cmonster> My questions are these? Should I go with the PAO or the 3.3 cmonster> release, or current, or stable? 3.3 works for me. I expect -STABLE and -RELEASE to be similar. cmonster> The 3.3 release recognizes my 3com 3C589D-TP etherlink III, cmonster> and i can install via ftp. When I tried to PAO-ize the cmonster> kernel, next time I booted it said invalid entry in rc.conf cmonster> file and dropped to single user mode, losing half my files cmonster> system (everything but /) . So don't PAO-ize? :-) cmonster> Before the PAO disaster, I tried unsuccesfully to get cmonster> x-windows to work alos. Any suggestions there? According to cmonster> IBM specs, it has a trident CYBER9382 chipset, and a DSTN cmonster> passive matrix 800x600 display, with 1M video ram. Hmm, mine has the NeoMagic. Before drivers were available for that, I used a "generic" SVGA driver and it did 800x600 just fine. Might want to try the simplest thing first. cmonster> And finally, will there be, or is there now, support for the cmonster> Linksys Etherfast 10/100 + 56k combo card? Can't help here. I tried soemthing like this when I first got mine and I believe the card shared the same interrupt for both, which FreeBSD couldn't handle (at the time, don't know about now. So I got separate Ether and modem cards, and a SCSI card, since I figured I wouldn't be using Ether and Modem at the same time. = To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message