From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Mar 9 23:12:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from portjeff.net (mail.portjeff.net [207.198.250.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C623F37B911 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 23:12:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paul@nerdlabs.com) Received: from nerdlabs.com [24.129.14.55] by portjeff.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.00) id A11776DB0218; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 02:15:35 -0500 Message-ID: <38C89DC5.46A82AF1@nerdlabs.com> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 07:01:25 +0000 From: Paul Dlug X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.5-15 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Damien Tougas Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Looking for laptop opinions/experiences References: <20000309234436.A16923@tougas.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have a Sony VAIO F350 I bought in december. Compatbility wise it's been pretty good, I have 3.3 on it with PAO (http://www.jp.freebsd.org/PAO/) which supports my Linksys PCMCIA NIC quite well. The neomagic chipset on it is supported by xfree and works just fine at 1024x768. I would reccommend this laptop highly if the hard drive hadn't failed two days ago :-) Other than that 'minor' detail I would say I'm completely satisfied with it. Damien Tougas wrote: > > Hello, > > I am looking at buying a laptop, and was wondering if anyone has had > any experiences (good or bad) that they would care to share with > regards to hardware compatibility. Video problems? NIC problems? Etc. > Is it better to have a separate pcmcia card for modem and lan or are > the combo cards ok? Is there a brand of lan cards that people have had > problems getting running under FreeBSD? Any nuggets that can be > provided would be of great help to me in deciding what it is that I > should look at purchasing. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message