Date: Thu, 5 Oct 95 17:18:35 CDT From: laufen@sol.med.ge.com (Derek Laufenberg x7-4534) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Laptop - i got one, but now... Message-ID: <9510052218.AA11465@merak.med.ge.com>
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Hi again, Thanks for all the input on laptops last week. Most of the suggestions were outside my $ range. I did find one though. Sharp - 8800 486 DX4 - 75Mhz 8M RAM 500M HD 800x600 SVGA Screen (major selling point for me) Built in GlidePoint mouse pad (I like this style personally) Built in sound. Bottom line -- $2300 -- I've got the basic system installed. No problem. I had to do it from the DOS partition because the basic kernel does not have any PCMCIA support... so I couldn't use the ether card. I have a few questions for anyone with the FreeBSD running on a laptop. 1) What is the shape of the PCMCIA drivers? Generic? Card specific? 2) The screen saver seems to hang the system. Any clues? 3) Is there a way to install X from the sysinstall program now that I have room on the DOS partition for it? The bin dist is already there. 4) FreeBSD reboots with my Xircom PCMCIA Ether/Modem card in it. I think it is because the card is memory mapped to 0xd200-d2ff. At least that is the exclusion statment required by EMM386 in MS-DOS for the card. TIA, Derek Laufenberg
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