Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 09:59:53 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org> To: Lorin Lund <lorin_lund@yahoo.com> Cc: iago <rnera@optushome.com.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: laptops Message-ID: <39EC5B59.340BDF5E@mitre.org> References: <001c01c03841$aa5e2460$0300fea9@lorins.ild.telecom.com>
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Lorin Lund wrote: > > As for PCMCIA cards: Cardbus is not supported. You need to get 16 bit > cards. Also, it appears that PCMCIA cards under FreeBSD are not > hot-swappable. The card has to be in the slot at boot time to be > recognized. At least that is what it looks like to me. Two points: 1 Cardbus is not supported yet. You can hot swap PCMCIA cards, you merely have to power them down before you remove them. pccardc power x x (man pccardc for more information) > For notebook computers with builtin modems: everyone I've heard of are > WinModems. They won't work with FreeBSD yet. And maybe not ever. Get a PCMCIA modem. > I have a Compaq Presario 1200. It works but I wouldn't recommend it. I got > it before I knew what a hassle it would be to get configured. The biggest > hassle was X configuration. I ended up loading Linux Mandrake to let it > configure the X windows then I saved the X configuration file and reloaded > FreeBSD. Strange, because both FreeBSD and Linux use the same X server (XFree86) AFAIK. You might also want to check the web, several people post X configurations for laptops on the web (usually under a Linux page, but the X config works the same under FreeBSD). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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