Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 13:23:06 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Laptop recommendations in France / Europe? Message-ID: <20010512132306.D51610@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <200105112304.QAA21218@usr02.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Fri, May 11, 2001 at 11:04:03PM %2B0000 References: <20010511094820.D89124@lpt.ens.fr> <200105112304.QAA21218@usr02.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert said on May 11, 2001 at 23:04:03: > > 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). That's nice to know. I may go in for this model; I'll decide within this week or so. I'll probably make it dual-boot (FreeBSD and Linux), to begin with anyway... Thanks Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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