From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Jan 29 20: 1:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from sierra.seas.upenn.edu (sierra.seas.upenn.edu [158.130.64.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C13037B400 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 20:00:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from home.seas.upenn.edu (root@HOME.SEAS.UPENN.EDU [158.130.64.11]) by sierra.seas.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA20190 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 23:00:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from porsche (GOLDBERG-226-229.RESNET.UPENN.EDU [130.91.226.229]) by home.seas.upenn.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA07871 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 23:00:53 -0500 (EST) From: "Ted J. Stein" To: Subject: Dell Laptops and 3com CardBus Cards Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 23:00:07 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi all, First, let me extend my sincerest apologies for my earlier message containing the word "subscribe". It's been at least three years since I've participated in any of the FreeBSD mailing lists (let alone worked with Majordomo at all), and I jumped the gun. That being said, I was wondering if anyone has gotten FreeBSD to install and run on a Dell Inspiron 5000. I include the all-important installation process since other operating systems have failed during install. More importantly, I have a 3com FEM656T - a CardBus card. I've been informed that this will not work with the FreeBSD kernel. So, if FreeBSD will install, I'd be more than willing to purchase a PCMCIA Ethernet card that would cooperate with FreeBSD. Any suggestions as to what cards are best supported (and cheapest)? Any information on either subjects is greatly appreciated. Please note: the computer is an Inspiron 5000, _not_ a 5000e. Apologies and many thanks, Ted Stein To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message