From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 5 23:06:43 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC02516A4CE for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 23:06:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D09943D2D for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 23:06:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 5F35084AE8; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 09:36:40 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 09:36:40 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Rainer Duffner Message-ID: <20050105230640.GX53273@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20050105112105.GS53273@wantadilla.lemis.com> <41DC645C.2060105@ultra-secure.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="eGyD7iWN192kf2IJ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41DC645C.2060105@ultra-secure.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 23:06:43 -0000 --eGyD7iWN192kf2IJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wednesday, 5 January 2005 at 23:04:12 +0100, Rainer Duffner wrote: > julesg@newebmail.com wrote: > >> A friendly FreeBSD'er in the Netherlands helped me get some perhiperals >> running; and I did learn some things for my efforts; Conexnat(?), the >> modem people, are beginning to be quite responsive to the Linux the >> FreeBSD communities, and I expect they will begin to offer Linux drivers >> for their modems -- but right now, the 1150 Winmodem (which I require) >> only works with M$ OS's. I purchased this, believing that I could make >> things work with FreeBSD -- but not so. I was replacing an old Tecra and >> everything worked fine, with both Linux and BSD -- not so the 1150. >> >> I made a serious mistake -- I should have come here first and asked "What >> works best with FreeBSD" and now I pay for that mistake, because when I >> boot up I have to look at a windoz desktop. >> >> So Greg, DON'T YOU MAKE THAT ERROR -- find something else to buy! > > Does it have a serial port ? Then, one could use a serial modem. No, but it has a PCMCIA slot, which you could use for a PCMCIA modem.=20 Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --eGyD7iWN192kf2IJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB3HMAIubykFB6QiMRArLAAJ0Y2jKVL4oDbh9Sl+j3C5SKlVR++QCgi3Bd EzCqkCzmaayoYZtlmG2ZCZ0= =JHPw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --eGyD7iWN192kf2IJ--