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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.nic.surfnet.nl!sun4nl!news.iaf.nl!iafnl.iaf.nl!yedi!wilko From: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Subject: Re: Experience with a laptop? Organization: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem - The Netherlands Message-ID: <DC17HJ.v5@yedi.iaf.nl> References: <3ugfie$nia@ici-paris.ensta.fr> <DBx1on.9Kz@deshaw.com> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 20:27:19 GMT Lines: 23 christos@deshaw.com (Christos Zoulas) writes: >In article <3ugfie$nia@ici-paris.ensta.fr> babafou@orange8.ensta.fr (Marc Baudoin) writes: >>I'd like to buy a laptop PC and to run NetBSD on it. Does anybody have any >>experience with NetBSD on a laptop PC? Problems with Ethernet board >>or video chipset? >I have an IBM 755c with 12M of ram 533M of disk, 3com 3c589 ethernet >and a MHZ 28,800 modem. If you have the muscles to lift such a beast, >it runs pretty well. I'd suggest you find something lighter. Like >a DEC hinote ultra, although I have not tried to run NetBSD on it. >christos Not exactly your question, but close: I have FreeBSD2.0.5. on my Hinote (non-Ultra). Works just fine, altho 8 Mb is a bit cramped. Xfree86 was happy with the screen. The Xircom ethernet proved to be a no-go (the machine is owned by the company I work for, so I could not influence the enet card selection in time to get a 3com or so). Wilko