From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 18 19:24:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA24202 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 19:24:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns.ge.com (ns.ge.com [192.35.39.24]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA24196 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 19:23:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from crissy.gemis.ge.com ([3.29.7.57]) by ns.ge.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA29589; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 22:23:36 -0400 Received: from salem.ge.com (carsdb.salem.ge.com [3.29.7.15]) by crissy.gemis.ge.com (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id WAA02197; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 22:23:26 -0400 Received: from combssflt.salem.ge.com (combssfr.salem.ge.com) by salem.ge.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA14250; Thu, 18 Apr 96 22:23:26 EDT Received: from localhost (steve@localhost) by combssflt.salem.ge.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA00495; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 22:21:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 22:21:53 -0400 (EDT) From: "Stephen F. Combs" Reply-To: "Stephen F. Combs" To: William Bulley Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ThinkPad and FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199604182141.RAA19816@ohm.merit.edu> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk William, I'm sending you this from a Thinkpad 755CSE (not the same as you mention, but it works quite well). Doesn't have X yet and haven't gotten the MWave modem to work, but I've also got a Megaherts PCMCIA modem which I am using to connect to the net with (as I write this message). I'm using an ALPA package which provides PCMCIA support. Don't know what is in a 701 but the 755CSE is quite good (100MHZ DX4, 540MB IDE disk, and I've currently got 24MB of ram!). ---- Stephen F. Combs Internet: CombsSF@Salem.GE.COM GE DS&TC Voice: 540.387.8828 Network Services Home: CombsSF-Home@Salem.GE.COM 1501 Roanoke Blvd FAX: 540.387.7106 Salem, VA 24153 LapTop: CombsSF-Mobile@Salem.GE.COM On Thu, 18 Apr 1996, William Bulley wrote: > We are considering an IBM ThinkPad 701 for FreeBSD. > > I don't know what it has on the inside (the store clerk > frowns on my taking laptops apart in his showroom...) :-) > > This puppy is 75MHz 486 so is kinda slow, but will the > other stuff work? For example: > > 1) modem uses DSP (?) > > 2) disk is not IDE (MicroChannel?) > > 3) UART chip (??) > > 4) other stuff like the red button mouse (just a PS/2 mouse?) > > Is this gonna work or cause me lots of headaches? Thanks! > > Regards, > > web... > > -- > William Bulley, N8NXN Senior Systems Research Programmer > Merit Network Inc. Domain: web@merit.edu > 4251 Plymouth Road MaBell: (313) 764-9993 > Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105-2785 Fax: (313) 747-3185 >