From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 17 5:57: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.esil.univ-mrs.fr (jiyu.esil.univ-mrs.fr [139.124.44.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBD3437B479 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 05:57:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bsdfr.org (cam.esil.univ-mrs.fr [139.124.44.65]) by mailhost.esil.univ-mrs.fr (8.9.3/ESIL/jtpda-5.3.1) with ESMTP id OAA79363 ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 14:56:12 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <39EC4C32.8110B380@bsdfr.org> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 14:55:14 +0200 From: cam X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.17 i686) X-Accept-Language: fr, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: iago Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: laptops References: <001201c03838$185c9aa0$0200a8c0@ryan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG iago wrote: > HI everyone > > looking into getting a laptop > > i will most likelt dual boot betweem MS and FreeBSD, to that end... what > laptops are people using with FreeBSD these days? > > are they running well ... X also working fine? > > thanks Hi I own a Zenith laptop (P266MMX) and all my hardware is supported, but I'd a lot of problems with my PCMCIA ethernet/modem card (Xircom CEM56) before the FreeBSD-4. I think this is the most important thing to consider before buying a laptop: choose a good network card. You can have a look at the list of supported cards. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message