>So far I hear the 505 models should work well with the exception of
>some difficulty with the CDROM.  Does anyone know if 838 line are
>similar from the point of view of NetBSD?  Thanks for your help.

That's the older Vaio, right?  I really don't know anything about it.
The issue with the CD-ROM is that it uses a extremely bizarre PCMCIA
interface; if the 838 has an internal CD-ROM, then it's probably won't
have the same problem (BTW, Windows NT also has problems with this
CD-ROM drive, so I don't feel bad :-)).

--Ken