Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 20:46:31 -0500 (CDT) From: Jerry Dunham <jdunham@fc.net> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: dwharton@alcor.concordia.ca (Dale Wharton), hamilton@pobox.com (Jon Hamilton), questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Re: cheapest laptop for FreeBSD? winmodems? Message-ID: <200008030146.UAA80746@freeside.fc.net> In-Reply-To: <20000803094137.P36094@wantadilla.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Aug 3, 2000 09:41:37 am"
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Greg Lehey babbled: > Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 09:41:37 +0930 > On Wednesday, 2 August 2000 at 19:57:20 -0400, Dale Wharton wrote: > > Dale Wharton ve2ndw@rac.ca M O N T R E A L Te souviens-tu? > > On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Jon Hamilton wrote: > >> Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 23:15:05 -0500 > >> From: Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com> > >> > >> [...] > >> > >> I have one of those (Compaq 1200-XL) and while I agree that their reputation > >> isn't the best as far as hardware compatibility goes, I will say that getting > >> FreeBSD running on it wasn't hard at all. The built in modem is a winmodem, > >> so that's useless, but aside from that everything appears to work fine -- [snip] > >> So in summary, it's pretty good as a FreeBSD-only machine, a bit of a pain > >> if you want to dual boot. Take that for whatever it's worth :) > > > > Jon, many thanks for your very constructive remarks. Your aside > > about winmodems rang my bell (internet access is essential for > > my purpose). > > You always have the option of a PCMCIA modem. That's what just about > everybody does. > > > Which raises another question: how does one learn in advance if a > > modem is a winmodem? The only literature that I saw, a brief spec > > sheet on the Compaq Presario 1200-XL115, says simply "Modem 56kbps > > with V.90 Support." > > It's almost impossible to get that out of the vendors. "You're not > supposed to know". But I don't know of any laptop modems which are > not winmodems. To my knowledge, all current notebook built-in modems are winmodems. -- Jerry Dunham FreeBSD http://www.dunham.org jdunham@fc.net jerry@dunham.org (512)335-0674 (H) E Pluribus Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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