Best laptop for Freebsd

[Old Ranger]

Abram B OLson wrote:
> I have an acer travelmate 2420 that requires ndis for the broadcom 
> 4318 wireless card but other than that it works in linux and freebsd 
> nearly out-of-the-box. I got it from newegg for 500 usd too. I'm very 
> happy with it.
>
>
> Abe
>
>
> CyberSword wrote:
>> I really can't say enough times how much I love my IBM T23, it's a 
>> couple of
>> years old and runs both WinXP and FreeBSD 6.1 like a charm.
>> I only had a bit of a problems configuring X, but that's part me for not
>> having much experience and was easily resolved by doing some digging in
>> Google.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>
>>  
>>> On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:58:53AM +0300, g wrote:
>>>    
>>>> Is there any one model or product that would be better for Freebsd 
>>>> 6 (as this is my day in day out operating system).
>>>>       
>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile
>>>
>>>    
>>>> Any experiences and or advise would be much appreciated.
>>>>       
>>> My vote is for Thinkpads
>>>     
>>
>> Mine too. I have an R51. Man, that computer is awesome. No issues 
>> with it,
>> etc.
>>
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Greetings,
I recently got myself a Dell Inspiron 1501 with AMD dual core processor.
Split HDD in half, XPPRO on one side, FreeBSD 6.1 on the other side.
Only been tweaking with it for a couple of days now.
Several "issues" seem to be on the plate.
One is accessing the USB floppy drive. 
???  5 USB ports showing in dmesg, but none actually mount the drive 
when I attempt "mount_msdosfs /dev/**** /mnt"  ??

Very happy otherwise.

DSL modem should be coming UPS in the next couple of days.
At THAT time, I'm sure I'll have some more questions and comments.

Thanks for listening, and any suggestions on the USB floppy drive access.

Ciao,
Z. Wade Hampton
Twin Bridges, Montana