Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 12:43:40 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> To: Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> Cc: Jonathan Towne <wrongway@slic.com>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What laptop should I buy? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003241238450.45830-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> In-Reply-To: <20000324173650.E21424@numachi.com>
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On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Brian Reichert wrote: > A shorter URL: > > <http://www.ita.sel.sony.com/products/pc/notebook/pcgc1xs.html>; Oops, I guess I was looking at my Sony Xtras/Viao direct catalog so I forgot all about the Sony site. > I successfully got 3.2-RELEASE on this box's predecessor (a PI 266 > MMX box). Really cute. Cool sound, too. Looks like a big Walkman. :) > > Gotchas: > > - the supplied USB-based floopy drive can be booted from, but > FreeBSD knows jack about it. Last I heard (circa this past > summer) was that said floppy was 'next on the list' of targets > by some fanatic group in Japan (hi, guys!). Yeah, I guess USB is really a new technology and not really tested as well as one might expect. > - this beast has no serial ports. It does have a modem, an IR > port, etc, but no good, old-fasioned DB9 or miniDIN or anything. > Presumably, a PCMCIA card would do, but I like having a network. > :/ Is there such a thing as a USB serial port? Actually, there are such things as PS/2 keyboard ports, Serial ports, parallel ports. Xircom and Belkin makes them I think. I never realized it doesn't have serial ports. So make that two things it doesn't have, ports and CD/DVDROM drive. It also doesn't work with the Xircom/Intel RealPort modems since those are type III or needs two Type II slots and this beast only has one. For Xircom, here is the URL: http://www.xircom.com/cda/page/0,1298,1_1-2,00.html Cheers, Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] Almighty1@IRC - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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