From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Mar 24 15: 9:26 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 EC8F537B57A for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 15:09:22 -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 NAA30080; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:09:11 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:09:11 -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: <20000324180326.I21424@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: > 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. Forgot all about PCMCIA but maybe there are USB DVD Drives too. > 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. :( How about something from Margi since it seems like they make all sorts of PCMCIA solutions for notebooks. > Geez, the Picturebook's screen size screams 'letterbox'. :) Yep =) > > For Xircom, here is the URL: > > > > http://www.xircom.com/cda/page/0,1298,1_1-2,00.html > > Cool, thanks for the pointers. No problem except the Xircom is kinda on the expensive side. 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