From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 15 1: 7:45 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 15 01:07:43 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 585CD37B402 for ; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 01:07:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from pacman.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (smtp@pacman.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.150]) by berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/4.3-mailhub) with ESMTP id EAA28883; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 04:07:42 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (timcm@localhost) by pacman.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/5.1-client) with ESMTP id EAA22224; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 04:07:42 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 04:07:42 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen X-Sender: timcm@pacman.gpcc.itd.umich.edu To: igorr@crosswinds.net Cc: Joshua Richesin , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Laptop support In-Reply-To: <20001215084444.A32511@linux.rainbow> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes, he could use a PCMCIA modem. Those are pretty much your two options. External serial port and pcmcia. Any one that is a true hardware modem (not a winmodem) should work. Josh, did you not get a message from me about this with a few links for you to check to see if a modem was a winmodem? Tim On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Igor' Robul' wrote: > On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 07:17:48PM -0600, Joshua Richesin wrote: > > Ok, from the responses I got from this email forum, I have determined that I > > cannot use the modem that is currently in the Compaq 1245 laptop. My next > > question is, what modem should I get that freebsd "likes" the most? > > Remember, this is for a Compaq 1245 laptop. > Buy ANY external modem. Of course, if your laptop does not have serial > port you can't use external modem. > > -- > Igor Robul, Unix System Administrator & Programmer @ sanatorium "Raduga", > Sochi, Russia > http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=304744 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message