In message <20010815161741.24557.qmail@patheticgeek.net>, "Kevin Lahey" writes:
>
>I need to buy a laptop for work (my employer is picking up the bill), 
>and I'm still trying to figure out what to get.  The IBM Thinkpad X 
>and T series look pretty good to me, but it isn't clear to me that
>they are completely supported by NetBSD.  Will the internal Ethernet
>and/or 802.11 interfaces work under NetBSD?  I've about given up on modems,
>but since I haven't used one in five years, I figure that won't bother
>me.  What about audio?

I'm mostly happy with my Thinkpad T21.  The built-in Ethernet works 
with the fxp driver; the modem is, as you guessed, a WinModem, and thus 
useless to me.  Audio is a bit problematic; there is a driver for it, 
but there's something funky about it versus power management.  I 
recently just excluded it from my config file, since having sound 
wasn't worth the crashes at "suspend" time.  X works reasonably well, 
though I had to use 4.0.3.  (But StarOffice crashes the X server -- I 
have to try 4.1.)  However, I haven't been able to get simultaneous 
displays on the laptop and on a VGA projector -- a nuisance when I'm 
giving talks.

My machine is too old for a built-in 802.11 interface, so I don't know 
if that works.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb