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 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net>
> i would like to buy notebook to use with FreeBSD. Not new one, something 
> like Pentium 200-PII/500 with 64-128MB RAM will be OK, and there are lots 
> of them available cheaply.
> 
> Unfortunately most of them have windows-only hardware.
> Does anyone here using such machine successfully with FreeBSD.
> 
> successfully means:
> 
> 1) PCMCIA works
> 2) disk works with DMA.
> 3) USB works
> 4) Network works (if present)
> 5) X works.
> 
> Thanks

This should get you started, there may be others.

http://www.zapatec.com/freebsd/laptop/
http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~dkulp/fbsd/laptop.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/laptop/article.html

Bob