Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 00:10:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Wong Horn Lim <hlwong@asiapac.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Notebook and FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980603000752.22038n-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980602173420.0088c500@mail.asiapac.net>
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I'm moving this over to -mobile. On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Wong Horn Lim wrote: > I need some advice on buying a new notebook and > install FreeBSD 2.2.6-Release, I need to know > the model for ThinkPad,Digital and Toshiba > that can install FreeBsd, and run X-windows for > FreeBSD, network card model and modem (PCMCIA) PCCARD is in a severe state of flux since the CardBus chips in modern laptops are not backwards-compatible to the existing code. For the record, I have a Digital HiNote 575 (which is out of production) that runs FreeBSD great save for the pccard slots. Toshibas have been getting quite proprietary and may not work; ThinkPads have nutty keyboards that may require sc0 flags but otherwise appear to work. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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