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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: good freebsd notebook? Date: 10 Oct 1995 15:17:49 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 32 Message-ID: <45e2qt$72m@helena.MT.net> References: <45ccpj$agk@agate.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net In article <45ccpj$agk@agate.berkeley.edu>, Luigi Semenzato <luigi> wrote: >Hi, > >what's a good choice of notebook (if any) for running FreeBSD? NEC Versa P/75. It has a 800x600 screen/video supported by XFree86, it's fast, and it works very well. :) >This would be mostly for document preparation with Latex. >So it has to run latex, X Windows, xfig, xdvi, ghostscript, >ppp on an internal modem. Umm, none of the internal modems I'm aware of are supported under FreeBSD. As a matter of fact, I don't know of any machines except for the IBM which has a built-in modem, and that is a DSP chip setup like a modem which only works under DOS using a special driver. But, most PCMCIA modem cards will work under FreeBSD with the new PCMCIA code Poul Henning is working on. >It would be nice if it also drove a PCMCIA SCSI interface for >an additional external disk. I don't know of a PCMCIA SCSI interface which has a driver written for it, but you're more than willing to write one. Nate -- nate@sneezy.sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.sri.MT.net | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana. Wanna go fly fishing? I don't charge or home #: (406) 443-7063 | feed you, but I do know the area pretty well.