Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 05:45:27 -0800 From: Edwin Culp <eculp@EnContacto.Net> To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> Cc: Jeric <jeric@tiger.korea.ac.kr>, FreeBSD <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Recommended notebook for FreeBSD 4.4? Message-ID: <1005659127.3bf123f7f3579@Mail.SavvyWorld.Net> In-Reply-To: <01111301043607.00837@i8k.babbleon.org> References: <20011113.AAA1005628891@korea.ac.kr> <01111301043607.00837@i8k.babbleon.org>
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Quoting "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>: | On Tuesday 13 November 2001 00:24, Jeric wrote: | > thank you for your notes. | > Now I try to buy some notebook, but | > which one is good at FreeBSD? | > | > I prefer Sony VAIO R505 series | > and Compaq series | | Not to go into too much detail, but I strongly recommend against a Compaq. I would be curious as to some detail. I have a 1700 that I am not unhappy with. It has issues as everylaptop that I have ever had but it just depends on what you need it to do. Sound, XFree86, pcmcia, usb all work well. I've not tested the winmodem but am sure it doesn't work. My only simi-important issues are the dc0: <Conexant LANfinity Mini PCI 10/100BaseTX> that almost works, but generates "dc0: failed to force tx and rx to idle state" messages but since I have many pcmcia cards, it isn't a big problem and it works great with my collection of wireless pcmcia cards. The major drawback is the lack of a serial port. I can't use my cellular phone serial cable and don't know of another way to connect when traveling. It was reasonably priced and is very fast. I run current and do a make world on it every day in about an hour and fifteen minutes. ed .0 on pci0 | | > | > could you reply this? | > | > thank you. | > | > have a nice day. | | ---------------------------------------- | Content-Type: text/html; charset="euc-kr"; name="Attachment: 1" | Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 | Content-Description: | ---------------------------------------- | | -- | Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) | Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) | http://www.babbleon.org | | -------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! (let him go home) <----------- | | http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message | --- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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