Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 11:58:23 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Timothy Luoma <freebsd@tntluoma.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell i7500 or Toshiba 1005-S157? Message-ID: <20030921022823.GW16686@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <oprvtu1vwknva4ua@smtpx.operamail.com> References: <oprvtqukwinva4ua@smtpx.operamail.com> <20030920211056.T21556@freeman.4gh.net> <oprvtu1vwknva4ua@smtpx.operamail.com>
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--tuYRN1zEaS85jg/Y Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday, 20 September 2003 at 22:11:45 -0400, Timothy Luoma wrote: > On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 21:40:31 -0400 (EDT), Stuart Barkley <stuartb@4gh.net> > wrote: >> You might play around on with FreeBSD on the Toshiba first leaving >> your current Dell untouched. Once you have a little more experience >> you can try FreeBSD on the Dell. > > Thanks... I think that is exactly what I will do. Tomorrow afternoon I'm > going to CD-R my wife's files and try getting FreeBSD working on it. > > The one real hitch may be the modem. I only have dialup at home, so I'd > need to get the modem working to be useful at home. I have Ethernet to > shared DSL at the office, so I'll probably use that for getting it setup. There's a very good chance that you'll have trouble with the modem. It's probably a winmodem, and there's little support for them in FreeBSD. I've never tried on my Inspiron 7500, but it's possible that the ltmdm port (/usr/ports/comms/ldmdm) will work on either machine. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers --tuYRN1zEaS85jg/Y Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/bQzHIubykFB6QiMRAmQkAJ0WKPeB5vh9StJRjcofEMN9J8U0qQCfW7YC t2izkYSM6CVRtG/vYIHqigw= =vY5J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tuYRN1zEaS85jg/Y--
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