From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Mar 24 14:43:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (oahu.WURLDLINK.NET [208.164.68.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1AB637B8C4 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 14:43:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA29801; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 12:43:40 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 12:43:40 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy To: Brian Reichert Cc: Jonathan Towne , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What laptop should I buy? In-Reply-To: <20000324173650.E21424@numachi.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 Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Brian Reichert wrote: > A shorter URL: > > 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