From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Sep 16 14:35:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1076015482 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 14:35:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA21559; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 22:21:27 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 22:21:26 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: "Paul M. Lambert" Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PAO necessary for Tecra 8000? In-Reply-To: <19990916030601.A41095@pinky.magiclemurs.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 Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Paul M. Lambert wrote: > I've got a Toshiba Tecra 8000, and am looking for ways to make it happier. > > Right now, I'm using the PAO 3.2 distribution. > > On most of my machines, I typically try to keep up with -STABLE; it'd be > really nice if I could use the stock -STABLE on the Tecra, but I didn't > even try it yet. > > Before I wipe the thing clean and start over, can anyone tell me if > they've had success installing 3.2 on a Tecra 8000? > > Specifically, I need to be able to have apm work in a reasonable fashion > (i.e. sleep/return from sleep), and I would also really really like to > have the pccardd working. Both of these seem to work fine with my > current installation, but if I can avoid a separate branch, I'd > appreciate it. > > Anyone out there have experience with the Tecra 8000? It'd be great > to hear someone else's experiences. My entire company uses them, and > a lot of people would like to run FreeBSD but haven't bothered yet. If > I can work out the quirks for myself, I can make it much easier on them, > too. FreeBSD works very well with my Tecra 8000DVD. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message