From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Mar 9 23:27:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B11A37B569 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 23:27:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA01313; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 00:27:12 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000310002653.04504a00@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 00:27:10 -0700 To: Paul Dlug , Damien Tougas From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Looking for laptop opinions/experiences Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <38C89DC5.46A82AF1@nerdlabs.com> References: <20000309234436.A16923@tougas.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org What about sound? --Brett At 12:01 AM 3/10/2000 , Paul Dlug wrote: >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message