From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Mar 25 10:11:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED48937B8CA for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2000 10:11:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.9.3/frmug-2.5/nospam) with UUCP id TAA01294 for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Sat, 25 Mar 2000 19:10:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: by keltia.freenix.fr (Postfix, from userid 101) id 4754D8869; Sat, 25 Mar 2000 11:00:16 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 11:00:16 +0100 From: Ollivier Robert To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What laptop should I buy? Message-ID: <20000325110016.C35282@keltia.freenix.fr> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org References: <20000324215533.A13214@minix.cx> <20000324173650.E21424@numachi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000324173650.E21424@numachi.com>; from reichert@numachi.com on Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 05:36:50PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT/ELF AMD-K6/200 & 2x PPro/200 SMP Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org According to Brian Reichert: > - 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!). If you're following -mobile, you have seen my message saying that it does work with 5.0-C now that Nick has implemented the support. Just have CAM in your kernel, load the USB KLDs and run usbd. The floppy will appear as da0. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 4.0-CURRENT #78: Sun Feb 27 15:32:39 CET 2000 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message