On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 03:22 PM, Miles Nordin wrote:
> I have the MC-R700A (MobilePro 800), and even under Wince the battery
> status is basically useless.  For example, 'ifconfig up'ing a wireless
> card will change the machine's belief about the percentage of battery
> left.  It isn't like a real laptop with a current meter and small CPU
> inside the battery.

I see. Thanks for the info.

> There is NetBSD code to expose battery information to userland, but
> the hardware doesn't provide battery information in any serious way,
> compared to, say, an Ericsson celfone.  It is more like a Motorola
> celfone.

Makes sense.

> Also NetBSD can't control the screen's backlight.

Does that pose a problem or is the screen just full brightness?

> hpcmips is kind of a pain in the ass, but I promised never to buy
> another Intel CPU, ever, so it's worth it.  At least it feels like a
> real computer, and also you avoid being forced to use those stupid
> XFree86 servers.

Out of curiosity, what would cause you to never buy another Intel CPU? 
No XFree86 either?

Thanks for the info.

Bryan