From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 31 13:22:31 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2738816A67C for ; Wed, 31 May 2006 13:22:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bob.middaugh@comcast.net) Received: from rwcrmhc14.comcast.net (rwcrmhc14.comcast.net [204.127.192.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8D2E43D73 for ; Wed, 31 May 2006 13:22:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bob.middaugh@comcast.net) Received: from rmailcenter19.comcast.net ([204.127.197.129]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc14) with SMTP id <20060531132229m14009l5afe>; Wed, 31 May 2006 13:22:29 +0000 Received: from [199.20.118.218] by rmailcenter19.comcast.net; Wed, 31 May 2006 13:22:27 +0000 From: bob.middaugh@comcast.net To: Wojciech Puchar , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 13:22:27 +0000 Message-Id: <053120061322.599.447D9893000B7B4200000257220699849908099A0E0B0B0703D20D010D@comcast.net> X-Mailer: AT&T Message Center Version 1 (Apr 11 2006) X-Authenticated-Sender: Ym9iLm1pZGRhdWdoQGNvbWNhc3QubmV0 Cc: Subject: Re: FreeBSD notebook X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 13:22:36 -0000 -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Wojciech Puchar > 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 http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/