Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 23:36:43 -0600 (MDT) From: softweyr@xmission.com To: Frank Terhaar-Yonkers <fty@tylan.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: which P133 laptop? Any experience/recomendations? Message-ID: <199609140536.XAA04686@obie.softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <88421956@toto.iv>
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Frank Terhaar-Yonkers writes:
> Which of you folks are running FreeBSD on a P133 laptop? I've been
> looking at the Dell LMP133ST: 133Mhz/24MB/PCI/12"SVGA. Has anyone
> gotten this machine to work, or something similar?
>
> I have both -current and -stable running at home, so some hackery
> (if necessary) is no problem.
>
> Oh, and I'll need a PCMCIA ethernet card, advice here would be
> appreciated as well.
At work, we have two Gateway Solo S5s, both with P-120 processors and
the 11.4" 800x600 LCD displays. One has 40 Mb of memory; both have
multiple 1.05 Gb removable disk drives, and swappable floppy/CD-ROM
drives.
Both run well with FreeBSD 2.2, although installing on both was a
pain. It generally takes some hacking to get XF86 installed on a
laptop display, and some of the devices are slightly screwy. Also,
you can't install off the CD-ROM, since you can have either the floppy
or the CD-ROM installed at any given time.
We have a 3Com 3c589 PCcard ethernet and a Megahertz 28.8 PCcard modem
in each. We also have a new dual RS-422 PCcard for each; we do a lot
of serial protocol work. I haven't had time to hack with this card
yet, but I'm looking forward to it later this year.
We use these machines to run our GNU-based cross-development
environment for M68000 targets when our Software Design Engineers have
to go "to the field." It works quite well; the P120s are nearly as
fast as the HP 9000/712 model 100 workstations we use ordinarily. We
use the PCcard modems, PPP, and remote CVS (using CVS 1.8.1) for
remote access to our source code repository as well. I have a similar
setup at home, so I can work from here when I need to concetrate and
get something done without interruption, or getting called into a
meeting. ;^)
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