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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!new-news.sprintlink.net!mhv.net!usenet From: Bill Kish <kish@browncow.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IBM ThinkPAD750 Date: 11 Jul 1996 00:04:45 GMT Organization: Brown Cow Engineering Inc Lines: 37 Message-ID: <4s1get$g7l@news.mhv.net> References: <4s0tsu$3oe@Nntp1.mcs.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: browncow.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; IRIX 5.3 IP22) X-URL: news:4s0tsu$3oe@Nntp1.mcs.net -- hawks@Venus.mcs.com (Runs With the Night Hawks...) wrote: > >Howdy all, some of you may remember I was asking about getting FreeBSD2.1.0R >to work properly on a IBM thinkpad750. Well, thanx to a few people I have. >I decided to upgrade to 2.2-SNAP-960612 and I have since gotten it working >with Xfree86 and the syscons serial driver. If anyone else is interested in >it I can put a generic kernel up and my source diffs. > >I have not tested this kernel on anytying but the TP750C, 'cause thats what >I've got. I'd be interested to see if it works on the 755/760 if anyone >has one they'd like to try my kernel out on. > >Thanx, > >Alan Palmer >hawks@mcs.com I Just got FreeBSD 2.1 installed on on my 755CD. Was able to use the standard IDE kernel and it recognized the removable CDROM after I removed jumper S5 (I have no idea what this jumper is, and IBM couldn't tell me. I just tried them all...) I have not tried out the serial line yet though. What changes did you need to make to the source? -BK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Brown Cow Engineering, Inc Unix internals development, Distributed Systems, Scalable servers Tel: (518) 789-4181 Email: kish@browncow.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------