From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 5 21:04:10 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 BEAB216A4CE for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 21:04:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from bsd.ultra-secure.de (bsd.ultra-secure.de [62.146.20.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B28FC43D1D for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 21:04:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: (qmail 90525 invoked by uid 1005); 5 Jan 2005 21:04:08 -0000 Received: from rainer@ultra-secure.de by bsd.ultra-secure.de by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.22 Clear:RC:1(217.235.132.152):. Processed in 0.102375 secs); 05 Jan 2005 21:04:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.10?) (rainer@ultra-secure.de@217.235.132.152) by bsd.ultra-secure.de with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 5 Jan 2005 21:04:08 -0000 Message-ID: <41DC645C.2060105@ultra-secure.de> Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 23:04:12 +0100 From: Rainer Duffner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org References: <20050105112105.GS53273@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 21:04:10 -0000 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. Rainer -- =================================================== ~ Rainer Duffner - rainer@ultra-secure.de ~ ~ Freising - Munich - Germany ~ ~ Unix - Linux - BSD - OpenSource - Security ~ ~ http://www.ultra-secure.de/~rainer/pubkey.pgp ~ ===================================================