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Date:      Tue, 15 Jan 2002 00:49:52 -0800
From:      Andy Sparrow <spadger@best.com>
To:        Thomas Fiebig <tfie@stanley.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de>
Cc:        mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HP Omnibook 600 CT 
Message-ID:  <20020115084952.C1C313E41@CRWdog.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Jan 2002 08:09:19 %2B0100." <200201150709.IAA11252@stanley.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de> 

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> yes I'm sure, that they are compiled in the kernel. Error messages arrive, if I 
> try to start e.g. pccardd or moused. I haven't changed the generic kernel at 
> these points! But if helpful, I can send the kernel config file...

Wow. There's a separate "pop-up mouse" Linux driver project for this laptop:

	http://sourceforge.net/projects/obmouse/

and one here too that makes it behave like a serial mouse (don't know if it's 
actually the same or related):

	http://www.opensource.co.kr/opensource/proj.php3?projcode=7168&page=6

And *ouch! that stung!*: this link (for Linux) suggests that the PCMCIA 
controller is HP-proprietary with no specs available to boot:

	http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~fleck/iowa-lab/omnibook.html

Oh yeh, & it seems to be ISA-only. Oh, and it's not Y2K-compliant either...

> there appears another special problem of my wonderful OB 600 CT: Nobody knows, 
> how to get into the BIOS (if possible) of that notebook. Any ideas for that? 
> Standard buttons (DEL,ESC, CTRL F1, CTRL F2) don't work.

HP apparently claim that this isn't possible according to the Omnibook FAQ:

	http://www.eberl.com/omnibook/omnibook.faq

Golly. That's fsck'd. 

The upgrade-to-Win-95 FAQ for this thing says that a BIOS upgrade is a must 
for this, however (and provides APM support, apparently).

Good luck! (sure you wouldn't rather have one of those tiny Sony things? ;-)

AS


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