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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Notebook / Laptop issues WRT: FreeBSD Date: 22 Sep 1994 08:34:07 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 27 Message-ID: <35rfhv$b1g@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <hart.780152095@apanix.apana.org.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <hart.780152095@apanix.apana.org.au>, Leigh Hart <hart@apanix.apana.org.au> wrote: >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. Short answer: It doesn't. We haven't cased all the notebooks yet to see what sort of interrupts are generated, and what kinds of meaningful things to do about them. >Also, the PCMCIA cards (type II) only show up under DOS after a >card management tool is loaded. Sounds about right. >Any way that FreeBSD can access the 14.4k modem or ethernet card? Depends on the ethernet card - 1.1.5.1 has support for a couple of generic IBM and National ethernet cards. My `infomover' works just fine (ze0). >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*!) Indeed! Jordan