From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 17 6:59:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mb-20-100.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F4BD37B4C5 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 06:59:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA06183 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 09:59:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA18776 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 09:59:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id G2KUV800.T39; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 09:59:32 -0400 Message-ID: <39EC5B59.340BDF5E@mitre.org> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 09:59:53 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en]C-20000818M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lorin Lund Cc: iago , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: laptops References: <001c01c03841$aa5e2460$0300fea9@lorins.ild.telecom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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