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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Notebook
Date: 27 May 1995 22:29:51 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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olavi@zow.desy.de (Olaf Manczak) wrote:
[ ... bringing FreeBSD up on a laptop ... ]
] ....ooops. My personal experience with getting FreeBSD to run on Compaq Contura
] Aero has been rather painful. While getting Linux to run was not more difficult
] than booting Messy-DOS FreeBSD required lots of hacking. I belive that this
] notebook is a bit `tricky' but the hardware world supported but Linux is much
] wider. I had no problem to boot Linux (booting FreeBSD required patched kernel
] because of PCMCIA floppy), I had no problem with my NE2000 compatible PCMCIA
] Ethernet card under Linux (it is pretty easy to patch ze0 driver in FreeBSD
] to get the thing working but you need to do it yourself...), and my serial
] port which works under Messy-DOS and Linux somehow can't pass sioprobe test
] under FreeBSD. I prefer BSD (FreeBSD) but in certain cases Linux is just an
] easier choice...
Did you commit/submit-for-comminting-by-someone-else the "lots of
hacking" you did? If so, it will "just boot" on your machine now.
The main problem with the Compaq and IBM Thinkpad boxes has
historically been the 2.88M floppy drive. I believe this was
resolved quite some time ago.
The PCMCIA ethernet drivers have also been in place for quite some
time.
Perhaps you should try again?
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.