From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 16 23: 0:29 1999 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 318A414FE3 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 23:00:25 -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 AAA10133; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 00:00:15 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991116235758.045a5eb0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 00:00:09 -0700 To: David Scheidt , chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Support for USB floppies like Y-E Data FlashBuster-u ? In-Reply-To: References: <52073.942744346@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'd like to see support for USB laptop docking stations. These are a neat way to dock a laptop -- they have parallel and serial ports, mouse and keyboard ports, and usually a NIC and a USB hub. I haven't been tracking USB support in FreeBSD, so I'm not sure: how many of these peripherals will work now? What would it take to add support for the others? --Brett Glass At 06:57 AM 11/16/1999 -0600, David Scheidt wrote: >On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 15:56:21 +0100, Nick Hibma wrote: > > > > > If you ask the 3 IDE disks and ethernet hub that have gone pop this > > > weekend, they would say no, but myself I was pretty firm that I was > > > going to do something about it this weekend. Bastard things, they should > > > be shot and they will be. > > > > Be careful about shooting hard drives. Specifically, get your angle > > right such that you _do_ actually fracture the casing. The alternatives > > are all unfortunate and mostly painful. > >You sound as though you speak from experience. Personally, I have always >settled for a BFH. As fortune(6) says, you will never hit your thumb if >you hold the hammer with both hands. > >David Scheidt > > > >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