Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 17:15:30 +0100 (BST) From: Andrew Gordon <arg@arg1.demon.co.uk> To: Adept <adept@cep.yale.edu> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Libretto 50 and FSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970807165320.26373A-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970805090817.17224B-100000@www.cep.yale.edu>
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On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Adept wrote:
> I've had my Thinkpad 701C running with FreeBSD 2.2.2 for quite a while now
> and love it, but I'm debating whther or not I want to upgrade to a
> Libretto50 (great toy to debug networks, eh?)
>
> Does anyone have any gotcha's for the Libretto or even war stories? I
> know that Hosokawa-san has done the PAO work on a Libretto, but is the
> Libretto available in Japan the same one that is available in the US?>
I purchased one of the english-model Libretto 50 last week. I haven't
yet installed FreeBSD on it (awaiting delivery of a replacement, larger
hard drive), but I have booted the 2.2.2R boot floppy for test purposes.
The most likely hazzard I have observed so far is that, unlike the
several Toshibas I have owned previously, the 'suspend' mode suspends
to disk (rather than just continuing to refresh the DRAM while suspended).
The FDISK partitioning on the disk looks like:
off size end name Ptype Desc subtype
0 63 62 - 6 unused 0
63 1520001 1520063 wd0s1 2 fat 6
1520064 72576 1592639 - 6 unused 0
I don't know whether the suspend function just uses the last 32M
of the disc regardless, or if it looks for a suitable partition
or what - I suspect I may find out shortly!
Interestingly, the suspend/resume function (by pressing the power
button successfully resumes into sysinstall, despite apm being
disabled on the boot floppy.
The (PCMCIA) floppy boots OK, but doesn't seem to be probed correctly:
fdc0: direction bit not set
fdc0: cmd 3 failed at out byte 1 of 3
fdc0: not found at 0x3f0
Otherwise, the hardware seems to probe as expected.
The IRDA port probes as sio1 - anyone know if IRDA is capable of
supporting PPP between a pair of consenting FreeBSD machines, or
does the IR hardware demand a special protocol?
Given that the floppy occupies the only PCMCIA slot, it looks like
a parallel-port install (PLIP) is the sensible way to go.
If anything interesting happens when I get to the install, I will let
you know; meantime if there's anything else about the machine you
would like to know, drop me an email.
Andrew.
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