From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Mar 24 14:46:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from orion.ac.hmc.edu (Orion.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8109837BCFE for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 14:46:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brdavis@orion.ac.hmc.edu) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by orion.ac.hmc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA24297; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 14:46:09 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 14:45:50 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Brian Reichert Cc: Vincent Poy , Jonathan Towne , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What laptop should I buy? Message-ID: <20000324144550.A21356@orion.ac.hmc.edu> References: <20000324215533.A13214@minix.cx> <20000324173650.E21424@numachi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: <20000324173650.E21424@numachi.com>; from reichert@numachi.com on Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 05:36:50PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 05:36:50PM -0500, Brian Reichert wrote: > A shorter URL: > > > > 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