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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!gateway.dircsa.org.au!cleese.apana.org.au!apanix.apana.org.au!hart From: hart@apanix.apana.org.au (Leigh Hart) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Notebook / Laptop issues WRT: FreeBSD Date: 21 Sep 94 12:54:55 GMT Organization: Apanix Public Access Unix, +61 8 373 5485 (5 lines) Lines: 25 Message-ID: <hart.780152095@apanix.apana.org.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: seldon.apanix.apana.org.au I'm considering running FreeBSD on a notebook (486dx2-66/8mb/340mb) with 2 PCMCIA slots (one 14.4k fax modem, one 10b-T ethernet (unknown brand as yet). How does FreeBSD 1.1-Gamma contend with the issues of power management, ie: disk power-down, screen power-down, CPU sleep, CPU suspend, etc. Also, the PCMCIA cards (type II) only show up under DOS after a card management tool is loaded. Any way that FreeBSD can access the 14.4k modem or ethernet card? besides that, its wierd having a machine the size of a small book that's capable of supporting a few dozen interactive news readers and mail users via TCP/IP :-) (using 115200bps SLIP *bleugh*!) Cheers Leigh -- | "By the time they had diminished | Leigh Hart | | from 50 to 8, the other dwarves | <hart@eppie.apana.org.au> | | began to suspect 'Hungry' ..." | C/- 195 Gilles Street | | -- Gary Larson, "The Far Side" | Adelaide SA 5006 |