Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 10:19:36 -0400 From: "Sean O'Connell" <sean@stat.Duke.EDU> To: andreas@klemm.gtn.com, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, andreas.klemm.ak@bayer-ag.de Subject: Re: 4.1: Tosh. Satell. Pro 4300, Xircom R2E-100BTX + R2M56GA Message-ID: <20000727101936.E1679@stat.Duke.EDU> In-Reply-To: <20000727072832.A21968@titan.klemm.gtn.com>; from andreas@klemm.gtn.com on Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 07:28:32AM %2B0200 References: <20000727072832.A21968@titan.klemm.gtn.com>
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Andreas Klemm stated:
: I want to use FreeBSD 4.1 on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4300 and am
: looking for the *best supported* PCMCIA network card for FreeBSD 4.1
: and additionally some questions about the builtin winmodem and sound.
:
: I need the laptop for network business, so I need a fast and
: reliable card/driver combination (for doing monitoring and
: such ...
Cardbus support would help here.. (the pcmcia bridge/bus is going
to be the limiting factor) .. unfortunately, Cardbus under FreeBSD
is not yet here. I would gun for a built-in NIC (alas, most of the
ones that I know work are on the smaller notebooks).
: 3) Concerning Toshiba hardware:
: Is the builtin Winmodem supported by FreeBSD 4.1 ?
Highly unlikely (maybe under .. dare I say it, Linux with a binary-
only kernel mod).
: Is the builtin soundchip supported by FreeBSD 4.1 ?
According to the Canadian site (US site bombs for this model), it has
Sound System
16-bit full duplex Yamaha
sound system, 48kHz WAV
audio for annotation and
recording .WAV files, plus
playback of MIDI files; Internal
stereo speakers with volume
control dial
This is probably some variant of the YMF7xx supported by the ds1 driver,
but I cannot confirm this (can you go to a store with a custom boot
floppy ... :).
: 4) I noticed, that some notebooks have a NIC on-board that use our
: fxp network driver. Is that Intel CHIP available on PCMCIA card ?
: That would perhaps be a good alternative....
It looks like you are interested in larger notebooks, but the Sony
Z505Hx series have a "known-to-work" fxp-supported NIC in them.
: 5) What other notebook would you perhaps recommend instead.
: It should have CD-ROM and Floppy built in, same amount of RAM
: and diskspace and 14" TFT display as mentioned above.
: I need it for about 4 years. So good quality needed, but please
: not more expensive than the Toshiba Tecra (no Tecra, no Protege)
Have you looked at the IBM A/T series machines .. probably expensive.
At least the T series have a NIC in them, not sure about the chip.
The compaq Armada M700 have an Intel Nic in them (not sure about
support by fxp ... one faculty member has one, but only runs 'doze
on it .. no accounting for some people's tastes).
My tastes in notebooks tends towards the ultralights, so I am not
too familiar with the market that you are looking at.
S
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