From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 3 8: 5:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freeside.fc.net (freeside.fc.net [207.170.70.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ED5D37B8C6 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 08:05:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdunham@freeside.fc.net) Received: (from jdunham@localhost) by freeside.fc.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id KAA09863 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 10:05:27 -0500 (CDT) From: Jerry Dunham Message-Id: <200008031505.KAA09863@freeside.fc.net> Subject: Re: cheapest laptop for FreeBSD? winmodems? In-Reply-To: <20000803142909.L87263@wantadilla.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Aug 3, 2000 02:29:09 pm" To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 08:35:18 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-question@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey babbled: > Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 14:29:09 +0930 > On Wednesday, 2 August 2000 at 22:05:17 -0500, Jon Hamilton wrote: > > In message <20000803094137.P36094@wantadilla.lemis.com>, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> > >> 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. > > Jerry Dunham recently said there are none. Since he's ex Dell > laptops, I suspect he knows what he's talking about. I wrote that I don't know of any. I can't say that I have tracked every minor vendor, so there may be someone somewhere still offering one. The last major vendor I knew of with one was Sony. All the majors have gone with winmodems because they are cheaper and potentially smaller. If you know of an exception, I'd like to learn of it. -- 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