Re: installing bsd on a laptop

2004-12-20 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Murray Taylor wrote: IBM Think pads seem to go ok -- 4.8, 4.9, 4.10 I've had better luck with 5.3 on my R31 - it recognises ACPI and the 32-bit CardBus slot, amongst others. Witl laptops you really want the latest, to support their weird hardware. -- Dave

Re: installing bsd on a laptop

2004-12-20 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 20 December 2004 12:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? I was unable to get a Compaq's pccard working under FreeBSD 5.2.1 using either the new or old pccard systems. I had no

Re: installing bsd on a laptop

2004-12-20 Thread David Landgren
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? Available to purchase, I dunno. With older HP laptops I had no success with 5.2, but 4.10 was fine. I haven't tried 5.3 yet. When I say no success, I meant that the

Re: installing bsd on a laptop

2004-12-20 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? I'm typing this on a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo D 1840W running FreeBSD 5.3. Everything 'Just Worked', the only part of the X config I needed to do manually was the

Re: installing bsd on a laptop

2004-12-20 Thread Dan Kilbourne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] extolled: hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? I can tell you that my Dell C640 worked right out of the box. Xorg -configure got all my X stuff correct (I just needed to set default color depth to my

Re: installing bsd on a laptop

2004-12-20 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 20 December 2004 04:54 am, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Monday 20 December 2004 12:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? I just read about the website below at linuxtoday.com. The

Re: installing bsd on a laptop

2004-12-20 Thread Tom Vilot
[EMAIL PROTECTED] extolled: hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? I have FreeBSD 5.3 running beautifully on a Dell Inspiron 8200. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: installing bsd on a laptop

2004-12-20 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Monday 20 December 2004 06:46 am, Tom Vilot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] extolled: hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? I have FreeBSD 5.3 running beautifully on a Dell Inspiron 8200. I have FreeBSD 5.3

Re: installing bsd on a laptop

2004-12-20 Thread Joe Altman
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:54:09AM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Monday 20 December 2004 12:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? I was unable to get a Compaq's pccard working under

Re: installing bsd on a laptop

2004-12-20 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? The FreeBSD Laptop Compatability List at: http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/ will give you some information from about 450 other FreeBSD + laptop

Re: installing bsd on a laptop

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installing bsd on a laptop

2004-12-19 Thread NathanKelly31
hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: installing bsd on a laptop

2004-12-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Monday, 20 December 2004 at 1:53:43 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? I've had good results with Dell laptops. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients.

Re: installing bsd on a laptop

2004-12-19 Thread Murray Taylor
On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 17:55, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Monday, 20 December 2004 at 1:53:43 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? I've had good results with Dell laptops. Greg IBM

Re: installing bsd on a laptop

2004-12-19 Thread Karel Miklav
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? IBM Thinkpads are fine also. But try before u buy, whatever your decision. Take a live cd (http://www.freesbie.org/) with you and test it as much as you can. --