Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 23:04:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in (Rahul Siddharthan) Cc: brad.knowles@skynet.be (Brad Knowles), chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Laptop recommendations in France / Europe? Message-ID: <200105112304.QAA21218@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <20010511094820.D89124@lpt.ens.fr> from "Rahul Siddharthan" at May 11, 2001 09:48:20 AM
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> I'm an Indian citizen, and I do need a visa for most countries (except > Nepal and perhaps some other countries in the neighbourhood). > > It turns out the model I looked at yesterday has a winmodem (a Lucent > Technologies softmodem). There's supposed to be some linux support > for that now, otherwise I'll have to ask about replacing it with > something else -- it looks like it's not supported with FreeBSD. The Lucent Winmodem is supported by two versions of the Linux driver, ported, and one native version for FreeBSD. The two Linux versions are a native port of the Linux driver, and an object driver wrapper to let a binary Linux driver run in FreeBSD (This _may_ work with other Linux Winmodem drivers, including the one for the modem in my Sony Vaio -- I have not tried this yet). The native FreeBSD driver was written by Lucent; however, it was never released, since FreeBSD would not change the module loading interface to permit parameters to be passed to drivers loaded as kernel modules, when they are loaded. This last one was discussed at BAFUG/BABUG last night, with much blushing by Peter Wemm... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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