Hey all,

            I just installed NetBSD/hpcmips on my MobilePro 800 the
other day for the hell of it on a 128MB CF card I convinced my boss to
buy me because I made him think I needed it to help maintain the
network.  The LinkSys WPC11 v3 wireless card worked great, I'm using it
as a portable X and RDP terminal with no problems.  GREAT job on the
hardware support BTW, no real screenblanking but everything else works
including X w/ touchscreen and USB mouse.  I'm used to the funky boot
method because I ran NetBSD/mac68k for a long time in 1998 and it uses a
similar method to boot just w/ no touchscreen calibration.  BTW, the
MobilePro's touchscreen kinda sucks, it's horribly inaccurate heh.

 

            I was bored while migrating the old Win2K server to a new
Dual Xeon 2.8ghz monster we just built and I was looking at the junk
heap from the old server and noticed a USB ZIP 250.  I thought "nah, it
won't work, the kernel probably won't support it or it'll suck too much
power from the USB port".  So I said screw it and plugged it into the
MobilePro running NetBSD.  It worked like a charm, it came up and said
it found a USB<->SCSI adapter and sd0 was a USB ZIP 250.  I think I
finally found a cheap-ass power-hungry storage system for the mobilepro
without having to buy a MicroDrive or really expensive 512mb CF card.  

 

I know I know, I should get a real laptop..  But I'm poor and already
have a mobilepro.  I might make a slightly bigger battery pack out of
NiMH AA or C cells and plug it into the power supply plug if I get
really bored.  Is there any patches for screenblanking on the MobilePro
800 yet?  No pressure, just curious..

 

--Kevin D. Ogden