From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Jan 12 12:13:00 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA04926 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 12:13:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA04901 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 12:12:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id MAA25219; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 12:12:27 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 12:12:27 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow To: Bill Trost cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VAIO 505F vs Toshiba 3015CT In-Reply-To: <14979.916169266@cloud.rain.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Bill Trost wrote: > Dan Busarow writes: > Win98 will lockup if you eject an *ethernet* card without doing > their equiv of ifconfig down :) Told my partner he was nuts until he > showed me, and showed me the help section on downing it first. > > [jaw drops in disbelief] > > No way! I knew Windows networking was bad, but I didn't know it was > getting worse over time! I yank my Linksys (NE2K) card out from under > Win95 all the time. Do you have a funky ether card, or am I being more > selective of what protocols I install, or is it really that bad?? Just on 98, Win95 behaves normally. Only TCP/IP installed and It's a Linksys card. Laptop is a Compaq [mumble] that came with Win98 installed. It's even documented, Start/Help/Index/PC Cards/Removing (course it doesn't say failing to go through the procedure will hang the system, but it does :) Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message