Laptop recommendations for QNX 4.25.

Hi. I’m currently running 4.25E quite happily on my personal Toshiba
2805-S201 (which is no longer available). The company I work for has
decided that they would like to have several corporate-owned laptops for
developers to take to the field for debugging, since mine has proved so
useful.

So far, the models they’ve tried have not been able to run QNX as
flawlessly as mine. Our sysadmin could not get QNX to recognize PCMCIA
on an older Thinkpad; a newer Toshiba would run QNX when booted from a
floppy, but for some reason QNX could not be booted off the hard drive.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what currently-available laptops
“just work”; that is, require a minimal amount of tinkering and tuning?
Low-cost is preferred, and it doesn’t need to run photon; text mode is
fine for our purposes. Just something that will boot normally and has
support for ethernet. Thanks.

Josh Hamacher
FAAC Incorporated

“Josh Hamacher” <hamacher@faac.com> wrote in message
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Hi. I’m currently running 4.25E quite happily on my personal Toshiba
2805-S201 (which is no longer available). The company I work for has
decided that they would like to have several corporate-owned laptops for
developers to take to the field for debugging, since mine has proved so
useful.

So far, the models they’ve tried have not been able to run QNX as
flawlessly as mine. Our sysadmin could not get QNX to recognize PCMCIA
on an older Thinkpad; a newer Toshiba would run QNX when booted from a
floppy, but for some reason QNX could not be booted off the hard drive.

I know people have had some success using the old bootloader via
the dinit -O option on these machines.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what currently-available laptops
“just work”; that is, require a minimal amount of tinkering and tuning?
Low-cost is preferred, and it doesn’t need to run photon; text mode is
fine for our purposes. Just something that will boot normally and has
support for ethernet. Thanks.

Josh Hamacher
FAAC Incorporated

Hi Josh,

I have several DELL laptops here. The work flawlessly and the large LCD is
great for development work. The key is to get one with an ATI video card.

Augie

“Josh Hamacher” <hamacher@faac.com> wrote in message
news:3C7643DA.2000206@faac.com

Hi. I’m currently running 4.25E quite happily on my personal Toshiba
2805-S201 (which is no longer available). The company I work for has
decided that they would like to have several corporate-owned laptops for
developers to take to the field for debugging, since mine has proved so
useful.

So far, the models they’ve tried have not been able to run QNX as
flawlessly as mine. Our sysadmin could not get QNX to recognize PCMCIA
on an older Thinkpad; a newer Toshiba would run QNX when booted from a
floppy, but for some reason QNX could not be booted off the hard drive.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what currently-available laptops
“just work”; that is, require a minimal amount of tinkering and tuning?
Low-cost is preferred, and it doesn’t need to run photon; text mode is
fine for our purposes. Just something that will boot normally and has
support for ethernet. Thanks.

Josh Hamacher
FAAC Incorporated

Josh Hamacher <hamacher@faac.com> wrote:

Hi. I’m currently running 4.25E quite happily on my personal Toshiba
2805-S201 (which is no longer available). The company I work for has
decided that they would like to have several corporate-owned laptops for
developers to take to the field for debugging, since mine has proved so
useful.

I’ve got an ACER Travelmate 739TLV that works well under QNX4 and
QNX6 – including network card, and graphics mode. Don’t know if
it’s still available, though.

-David

QNX Training Services
http://www.qnx.com/support/training/
Please followup in this newsgroup if you have further questions.

Thanks for the suggestions so far. I’ve passed them on to our
sysadmin/laptop tester.

Josh Hamacher
FAAC Incorporated