From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Mar 2 11:27:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from thor.oit.pdx.edu (thor.oit.pdx.edu [131.252.120.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1377137B719 for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 11:27:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from singh@pdx.edu) Received: from freke.odin.pdx.edu (freke.odin.pdx.edu [131.252.120.43]) by thor.oit.pdx.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f22JRH325257; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 11:27:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (singh@localhost) by freke.odin.pdx.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f22JRH122819; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 11:27:17 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: freke.odin.pdx.edu: singh owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 11:27:17 -0800 (PST) From: Harkirat Singh X-X-Sender: To: David Bauer Cc: Subject: Re: Wavelan card & Laptop In-Reply-To: <3A9F4918.F14A2FA2@genprofile.com> 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 Hi David, I want to know are you using Lucent WaveLAN card with your Laptop. Thanks, Harkirat On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, David Bauer wrote: > Harkirat Singh wrote: > > I am thinking of buying new laptop Toshiba Satellite 1735XCDS. I want to > > know about compatibility of this Laptop with FreeBSD-4.2 and WaveLAN card. > > I am looking for low end laptops (64 MB RAM only), any suggestion for > > suitable laptops? > > I bought a 1710CDS some time ago (it was cheep and I finally needed a > replacement for my 486/66 Laptop) and I have still minor problems. There > is no support for the CS4281 Sound chip in FreeBSD. Also the ATI > graphics does not run with the Mach64 Xserver of XFree86(3.3.6). It's > running with the SVGA server but mgp coredumps with embeded X > applications and with "G" (not for everyday use so I can live with it) > so something is not perfect here. The USB does also not work out of the > box, but with a hack I found in the USB mailing list archive I could get > it working. > > I'm now thinking about moving to NetBSD as the NetBSD kernel has drivers > for CS428x and after booting it also recognizes the USB without any > hacking. > > PCMCIA seems to work with both Free and NetBSD although I have tested it > only under FreeBSD up to now. > > You can forget the build-in modem, it's a winmodem and not usable under > BSD. > I don't know anything about the optional build-in ethernet adapter, but > I'm trying to get one for testing. > > David. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message