From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 10 7:22: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lunatic.oneinsane.net (lunatic.oneinsane.net [207.113.133.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6814C37BA54 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 07:21:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from insane@lunatic.oneinsane.net) Received: by lunatic.oneinsane.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CC3D3186; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 07:21:55 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 07:21:55 -0800 From: Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson To: Damien Tougas Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Looking for laptop opinions/experiences Message-ID: <20000310072155.A73762@lunatic.oneinsane.net> Reply-To: Ron Rosson References: <20000309234436.A16923@tougas.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000309234436.A16923@tougas.net>; from damien@tougas.net on Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 11:44:36PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD lunatic.oneinsane.net 3.4-STABLE X-Moon: The Moon is Waxing Crescent (22% of Full) X-Opinion: What you read here is my IMHO X-Disclaimer: I am a firm believer in RTFM X-WWW: http://www.oneinsane.net X-PGP-KEY: http://www.oneinsane.net/~insane/insane2-pgp5i.txt X-Uptime: 7:14AM up 2 days, 23:42, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.08, 0.06 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 09 Mar 2000, Damien Tougas was heard blurting out: > 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. > Well I have a Fujitsu E-360 Lifebook (P2-333,64M Ram, 6.4G HD) The video chores are handled by a Trident 9388 with 2Megs, The Sound card is an ESS 1879. I run X at 1024x768 and have sound. Currently it is running CURRENT. I chose the Netgear FA410TXc for the NIC. The only downside is since it uses the ed0 driver it auto-negotiates the link and can not be done by hand with ifconfig from the command line. Do not get me wrong. When it sees a 100M it runs 100M. When it sees a switch it switches to Full-Duplex. The only thing missing is support for the onboard LT-Winmodem. The linix camp has alpha based drivers for this and hopefully soon we can. (Pray to the coder GODS). ;-) PAO + 3.4 worked on here as well with all support. TIA -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Rosson ... and a UNIX user said ... The InSaNe One rm -rf * insane@oneinsane.net and all was /dev/null and *void() ------------------------------------------------------------------- I can only please one person per day. Today is not YOUR day. Tomorrow doesn't look too good either. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message