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From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
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Subject: Re: recommended laptop configurations
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> 	I am going to need to rent a laptop for a week. I'm going to
> need to use a PCMCIA ethernet and modem. Any suggestions on what will
> work with freebsd?

PCMCIA modems are 'not supported' right now, and the best ethernet card
to get is the 3C589[B|C].  Note that the boot floppy doesn't work with
the 3C589C since the patch for it was made after 2.1R, but -stable has
the necessary bits.


Nate