Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:15:34 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: "Jeff Lee" <dibble@cc.gatech.edu> Cc: "David C. Kulp" <dkulp@cse.ucsc.edu>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Laptop Compatibility for FreeBSD Message-ID: <200103162015.f2GKFZs19932@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 Mar 2001 14:31:34 EST." <004601c0ae4f$b5e7f160$38934dc7@cnd.gatech.edu>
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> From: "Jeff Lee" <dibble@cc.gatech.edu> > Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 14:31:34 -0500 > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG > > Just looking at it the PAO patches seem to be for only freeBSD 3.5.1 and > under. I am running 4.3-beta on my compaq laptop. Which would be better > from a hardware support standpoint? In almost all cases, 4-Stable is the best place to be. Almost everything in PAO has been merged into -stable. There are some very uncommon cards that don't have drivers in Stable, but they are few and far between and, unless you need one of these, -stable is a far better choice. The other exception is for CardBus cards. These are rapidly becoming more popular and are only supported in -current. There is no support in either -stable or PAO. I'd suggest trying to avoid CardBus cards for now and -current has been even more of a mine field than usual of late and is not for the weak at heart (or those who don't want to rebuild daily and reboot, on some occasions, far more often. The last I heard, the developers were not planning on CardBus support in a release before 5.0, but I did see a message that it might happen before then if 5.0 gets pushed out too far. But, it will be a while, at best. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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