From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Jan 29 7:53:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com (cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com [24.13.23.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0359037B400 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 07:53:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (bri@localhost) by cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0TFrcJ30919; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 07:53:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bri@sonicboom.org) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 07:53:37 -0800 (PST) From: Brian X-Sender: bri@cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com To: Peter Wemm Cc: Kailesh Mussai , freebsd-mobile Subject: Re: Recommendations for a laptop In-Reply-To: <200101291248.f0TCm4450820@mobile.wemm.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I knew it was available in -current, my take was not to suggest that to someone looking for a recommendation, due to what you had mentioned. Brian On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: > Brian wrote: > > Cardbus pcmcia cards are a nogo currently, so choose your network adapter > > carefully. http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install-hw.html has the hcl, I > > see the 3com 3C589 in there, as well as a couple others by IBM and > > NatSemi. > > Actually, the cardbus stuff works on -current, but you had better be > very brave and have nerves of steel before deciding to do that. (I use > a linksys cardbus card on my VAIO PCG-F690 - a dc0 device and it works > very very nicely). > > > Brian > > > > On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Kailesh Mussai wrote: > > > > > Hello to all, > > > I am interested in buying a laptop,so tht I can freeBSd on it but I > am having a bit of difficulty in choosing one.Could anyone help me on this > . > > > Thank you. > > > Regards, > > > Kailesh > > > > > > == > > > "Wisdom is not assimilated with the eyes, but with the atoms.When your conv > iction of the truth is not merely in your brain but in your being, you may > diffidently vouch for it's meaning." > > > Swami Sri Yukteswar > > > > > > _____________________________________________________________ > > > > > > Save the World with a Click! > > > http://www.mahatma.org > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > > > > Cheers, > -Peter > -- > Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au > "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message