From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 10 17:19:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA15613 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 17:19:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA15606; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 17:19:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id JAA12659; Wed, 11 Jun 1997 09:49:21 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199706110019.JAA12659@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Laptop for FreeBSD with WaveLan In-Reply-To: <199706102021.QAA25261@mbunix.mitre.org> from Tom Lehman at "Jun 10, 97 04:18:36 pm" To: toml@mitre.org (Tom Lehman) Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 09:49:21 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Tom Lehman stands accused of saying: > I am preparing to buy a couple of laptops and install FreeBSD 2.2.2. If > anybody has any recommendations for manufactures/models that they have had > success with, I would appreciate the feedback. Right now, the big thing to be aware of is that there's not much in the way of support for CardBus machines. In general, most name-brand systems work quite well; IBM, NEC, Toshiba, Sharp, etc. We've used the Sharp PC9000/9030/9070 systems with great success, although you may have trouble getting these (there is anohter set of 9000 machines that are CardBus). > In addition I would like to use PCMCIA (Type II) WaveLAN cards in the > laptops with WaveLAN ISA in the FreeBSD 2.2.2 desktop systems. Are there > FreeBSD drivers available for these cards? Thanks in advance. The PAO distribution has a driver for these cards, and the Portland Mobile-IP code also supports them. I would stick with the PAO code just on the basis of simplicity of integration. > Tom Lehman -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[