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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!ais.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-3.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!not-for-mail From: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Laptop questions!!?? Date: 4 Apr 1997 19:41:39 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 27 Message-ID: <5i3lhj$asb@helena.MT.net> References: <867mikctff.fsf@kiste-5.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.mt.sri.com X-Newsposter: trn 4.0-test56 (2 Mar 97) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38590 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5764 According to Marko Schuetz <marko@kiste-5.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de>: >I would like to install either NetBSD, OpenBSD or FreeBSD on a >laptop. I would like to do this via FTP using a PCMCIA Ethernet >card. I've done this on half-dozen laptops. >The questions I have are: Is this possible with all of *BSD? Are >there differences in PCMCIA support/cards suported? In my biased opinion, FreeBSD has the best support for PCMCIA of all the *BSD's, although recent (commercial) BSDi release has PCMCIA support as well, which may be better than the FreeBSD support. Check out http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/PAO/ Nate -- nate@sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations work #: (406) 457-9000 | nate@trout.mt.sri.com | An unfeatured document is a bug. home #: (406) 443-7063 | - John Polstra