From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 18 14:57:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA11785 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 14:57:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA11779 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 14:57:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA01490; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 15:55:12 -0600 Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 15:55:12 -0600 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199604182155.PAA01490@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: William Bulley Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ThinkPad and FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199604182141.RAA19816@ohm.merit.edu> References: <199604182141.RAA19816@ohm.merit.edu> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > We are considering an IBM ThinkPad 701 for FreeBSD. It should work fine. > I don't know what it has on the inside (the store clerk > frowns on my taking laptops apart in his showroom...) :-) Taking them apart outside of the storeroom won't reveal much either. :) > 1) modem uses DSP (?) Nope. > 2) disk is not IDE (MicroChannel?) It's an IDE disk. > 3) UART chip (??) Yep. > 4) other stuff like the red button mouse (just a PS/2 mouse?) Yep. > Is this gonna work or cause me lots of headaches? Thanks! It should work fine if you use the 2.1R thinkpad boot floppy. ftp://freefall.freebsd.org/incoming/nate/* Nate