Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 16:57:20 -0500 From: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: Harkirat Singh <singh@pdx.edu>, freebsd-Mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Want to Buy a LapTop Message-ID: <3AA01740.AA8136A7@mitre.org> References: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0103021153370.22408-100000@freke.odin.pdx.edu> <20010302120525.B10111@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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Brooks Davis wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 12:01:47PM -0800, Harkirat Singh wrote: > > I want to buy a Toshiba Satellite family laptop with 64 MB RAM. My > > goal is to use it with FreeBSD 4.2 and WaveLAN card (Lucent). Could some > > one inform me about specific model with the config and is is working fine. > > > > I have looked at URL > > > > http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~dkulp/fbsd/laptop.html, but it does'nt talk about > > There's nothing particularly special about WaveLAN cards. If other PC > Cards work, the various wireless cards should as well. The biggest > hurdle is usually getting pccard working at all not the individual Well, WaveLAN cards don't like playing with other cards very much, but otherwise are pretty well behaved. Generally, if you want a wired Ethernet card (or a Modem, or something else) and a WaveLAN card in your system at the same time, you are going to have to insert the WaveLAN first and the other card second. Also, the great big dongles on the end of WaveLAN cards basically forces you to put them in the top slot if you want any other card in your system. That said, the WaveLAN cards do work as advertised, and the FreeBSD driver is *much* easier to work with than the Windows Driver. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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