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Old 10th November 2008
unixdude unixdude is offline
Real Name: Raul Ruiz, Jr.
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I have an old Toshiba 2100CDT satellite laptop. I have freeBSD-5.5
as the only OS on board. No GUI just CLI. I use it for making perl & sh scripts. And I use it for school. My laptop specs:
4 GB IDE Hard Drive
CPU AMD-K6II 400mhz
PCCARD slot 16 & 32bit
32X CD rom
2mg of on board video memory LOL!


I have tried to install FreeBSD-7.0 on this laptop with no luck. I keep getting input/output read errorrs. This maybe more a problem with the optics on my cd-rom?
ACPI is broken and I have it disabled. halt & reboot commands work but unable to use power down -p command. This is due to the ACPI issue I believe. The PCCARD works fine, and a fun way to bring back life to an old laptop that was probably on its way to the dump not to long ago.
FreeBSD-5.5 does not have the ath0 driver installed in the kernel by default but there is a KLD loadable ath0 driver module and I have it loaded. So my linksys wifi card does work. But I am not able to yet connect to my router.
I also recompiled the kernel without any problems. The old bird is pretty fast and fun to hack.
RR.
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