Hi, > I want to purchase some kind of 'subnotebook', that has to > be as -current-compatible as possible. > > I anticipate the crowd whispering "Libretto, ... Libretto", but > I have to say, that I don't like the Libretto very much for its > crude screen resolution. > > Currently I'm tending towards the "Toshiba Portege 3010" > or the "Fujitsu LifeBook B110 Biblo". > > Any experiences with these decices? > > I'm wondering about the CD-drives connected thru a PCMCIA-Card > and FreeBSD-compatible PCMCIA-Network-Cards.
I just got my toshiba portege 7020CT yesterday (it took 35 days and 3 reschedules to actually reach my front door!). Loaded 4.0-0306-SNAP and XF86-3.3.3.1 without problems (well, sorta, had to run sysinstall-XF86 config program a half dozen times b4 it worked properly...) This is the big brother to the 3010, 13.1" 1024x768 TFT display, neomagic 2200 chipset. The really nice part is that the main unit has neither floppy or CDROM, making it reasonably small for a 13" display. It comes with an external floppy and port replicator, but I opted for the optional loading dock which comes with floppy, DVDROM, and fxp0 (intel) 10/100 ethernet. So I was able to to do an NFS (ie ethernet) install with the dock network, not needing to deal with pc cards. To load packages I inserted my 3.1R CD into the DVD drive and ran /stand/sysinstall, worked great. I used defrag and fips b4 installing FreeBSD, seems to have worked OK also. I will continue to use m$$ucks for hardware setup till I get a handle on APM and friends. Now I just need some free time to help with the card-bus stuff! -- Steve Passe | powered by s...@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
