Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 20:08:50 -0700 From: Jim Mock <jim@jmock.com> To: Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Dale Wharton <dwharton@alcor.concordia.ca>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: cheapest laptop for FreeBSD? winmodems? Message-ID: <20000802200850.A1601@luna.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <20000803030517.A40C016F@woodstock.monkey.net>; from hamilton@pobox.com on Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 10:05:17PM -0500 References: <20000803094137.P36094@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20000803030517.A40C016F@woodstock.monkey.net>
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On Wed, 02 Aug 2000 at 22:05:17 -0500, Jon Hamilton wrote: > In message <20000803094137.P36094@wantadilla.lemis.com>, Greg Lehey wrote: > } 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? > > [...] > > } > 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. > > The problem in this case is that the laptop in question can only use > one PCMCIA card at a time, so you'd have to choose between a modem or > an ethernet interface :( I suppose another alternative would be to > use a regular modem on the serial port or a USB modem, but those have > the obvious disadvantage of being external and tedious to haul around, > if you want them to be mobile with you. Get a laptop with built-in ethernet, or get yourself a USB->ethernet adapter (which work fine with FreeBSD). > } > 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. > > I don't know of any by name either, but I do recall someone on one of > the FreeBSD lists recently mentioning that they had found a couple of > models still with real modems, but I had already made my purchase and > wasn't paying much attention, so don't remember the details. Some older models of the Sony VAIOs (before the VE line) have regular modems, not winmodems. - jim -- jim mock <jim@jmock.com> work: jim@osd.bsdi.com | jim@FreeBSD.org http://soupnazi.org/~jim/ BSDi Open Source Div | http://bsdi.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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