Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 14:45:50 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> Cc: Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET>, Jonathan Towne <wrongway@slic.com>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What laptop should I buy? Message-ID: <20000324144550.A21356@orion.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20000324173650.E21424@numachi.com>; from reichert@numachi.com on Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 05:36:50PM -0500 References: <20000324215533.A13214@minix.cx> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003241201160.45830-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> <20000324173650.E21424@numachi.com>
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On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 05:36:50PM -0500, Brian Reichert wrote: > A shorter URL: > > <http://www.ita.sel.sony.com/products/pc/notebook/pcgc1xs.html>; > > 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!). USB floppy support was added to current about a week ago. The Y-E Data drives are tested, but the TEAC drives were not at commit time. > - 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? Yes, there is such a thing as a USB serial port. There is an entry in my usbd.conf (stock 5.0) for an Entrega serial port, but I can't seem to find the module it wants to load. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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