From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 5 15:18:36 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA24317 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Oct 1995 15:18:36 -0700 Received: from gemsgw.med.ge.com (gemsgw.med.ge.com [192.88.230.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA24309 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 1995 15:18:32 -0700 Received: from gemed.med.ge.com by gemsgw.med.ge.com (4.1/GEMS-1.1) id AA06256; Thu, 5 Oct 95 17:20:30 CDT Received: from sol.sol.med.ge.com (sol-gw [3.28.124.2]) by gemed.med.ge.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA15376 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 1995 17:16:59 -0500 Received: from merak.med.ge.com by sol.sol.med.ge.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA09188; Thu, 5 Oct 95 17:18:37 CDT From: laufen@sol.med.ge.com (Derek Laufenberg x7-4534) Received: by merak.med.ge.com (4.1/client-1.3) id AA11465; Thu, 5 Oct 95 17:18:35 CDT Date: Thu, 5 Oct 95 17:18:35 CDT Message-Id: <9510052218.AA11465@merak.med.ge.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Laptop - i got one, but now... Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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