From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Mar 24 15: 3:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail.numachi.com (numachi.numachi.com [198.175.254.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 63CDD37BC1D for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 15:03:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from reichert@numachi.com) Received: (qmail 24691 invoked by uid 1001); 24 Mar 2000 23:03:26 -0000 Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 18:03:26 -0500 From: Brian Reichert To: Vincent Poy Cc: Brian Reichert , Jonathan Towne , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What laptop should I buy? Message-ID: <20000324180326.I21424@numachi.com> References: <20000324173650.E21424@numachi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: ; from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET on Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 12:43:40PM -1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 12:43:40PM -1000, Vincent Poy wrote: > 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. Well, PCMCIA drives seem to work. I poked at a coworkers Sony CDROM drive, worked just fine, cranked music, etc. What _I_ want is a PCMCIA DVD player that at least probes as a CDROM under FreeBSD. Don't know if that's doable. Something like: I wish. :( Geez, the Picturebook's screen size screams 'letterbox'. :) > 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 Cool, thanks for the pointers. > 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 -- Brian 'you Bastard' Reichert reichert@numachi.com 37 Crystal Ave. #303 Daytime number: (781) 899-7484 x704 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA Intel architecture: the left-hand path To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message