Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 15:49:16 -0600 From: Denver Timothy <dlt@mail.freeshell.org> To: Jim Mock <mij@soupnazi.org> Cc: Denver Timothy <dlt@freeshell.org>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sony R505 Message-ID: <20010923154916.A606@mail.freeshell.org> In-Reply-To: <20010923142458.A52078@helios.soupnazi.org>; from mij@soupnazi.org on Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 02:24:58PM -0700 References: <20010921164708.H530@mail.freeshell.org> <20010923142458.A52078@helios.soupnazi.org>
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On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 02:24:58PM -0700, Jim Mock wrote: > On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 at 16:47:08 -0600, Denver Timothy wrote: > > I am seriously looking at laptops-- something small and light that I > > can put FreeBSD on. > > > > I think I have narrowed my search down to two: > > > > Sony R505: This one looks neat, but information seems to be greatly > > lacking. From what I have been able to read, the Intel 815 chipset > > stuff may make this one too incompatible to be useful. > > I've got an R505TE, and FreeBSD works great on it. The i815 works fine > with X 4 (I haven't tried X 3). I can't find it again, but I read a post from somone the other day that said he had R505 and, basically, it worked great. The only real complaint that he mentioned was that APM didn't work. Had any problems with that? How about the network interface? What version are you running? -- Denver Timothy dlt@mail.freeshell.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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