From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 31 16:16:11 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 A2A1D16A737 for ; Wed, 31 May 2006 16:16:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D249B43D73 for ; Wed, 31 May 2006 16:16:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id m7so64161nzf for ; Wed, 31 May 2006 09:16:09 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=eFXJ3TAk1yA6w2gp0x5oO3aP9QHwXt7S0Xa7kHPm+IuLDyBWtauVsbEHblJmQsWLwGQypp2BoKt0pSww+yon7MhNtCrabUYSIk6hZz2rHUic6jqB+V+lQOXxYvlp2U1pE8Y1AJKJ4ensDRyfWRz4VzvYGp3fdB/Hs80P3sYy680= Received: by 10.36.104.20 with SMTP id b20mr299089nzc; Wed, 31 May 2006 09:16:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.104.17 with HTTP; Wed, 31 May 2006 09:16:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 11:16:09 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Wojciech Puchar" In-Reply-To: <20060531142608.X91987@chylonia.3miasto.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060531142608.X91987@chylonia.3miasto.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 16:16:20 -0000 On 5/31/06, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > 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. > 6) ACPI should be number 1 on your list and Just assume everything before 2001 is broken. 7) Onboard 100Mbit Ethernet is a must. 8) Working dri/drm video acceleration. 9) CD-Rom, that you can upgrade using standard slim-line parts. 10) At least PC100 RAM, 144pin SO-DIMMs. The first thing you'll want to do with your new used PI/PII laptop is upgrade it, because it's just too slow... I know... been there done that. So to save time and money your minimum target should be a PIII laptop. A Pentium 100 is so slow that it can't even play mp3's at the command line... Think about it... -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/