From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Oct 5 21:59:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2E6837B409; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 21:59:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA02346; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 22:59:17 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA13788; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 22:59:16 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15294.36771.792686.918118@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 22:59:15 -0600 To: Greg Lehey Cc: Kevin Oberman , Kenneth Mays , Nick.Barnes@pobox.com, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: recommended notebook for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <20011006132738.F13748@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200110051622.f95GMOk12754@ptavv.es.net> <20011006132738.F13748@wantadilla.lemis.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.95 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: 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. Sure they do. How do you enable/disable IrDA on your ThinkPad? Either with the Windows utility (which is a wrapper around PS2), or with the DOS PS2 utility. (I've got a ~4 month old T21 sitting next to me.) > I suspect > that most of the other comments are related to this particular model > as well. I'm typing on a 600E, and am about to replace it with the afore-mentioned T21. They are almost exactly the same in terms of configuration and support. > Some more recent Thinkpads come with a built-in PCI Ethernet card, > which is both faster and easier to integrate than the PCMCIA cards. Very true. However, the built-in card doesn't support 10-base 2, which is what I have at my home, so I have to use the older combo PCMCIA card. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message