From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 2 20: 4:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailgw00.execpc.com (mailgw00.execpc.com [169.207.1.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C0A437B598 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 20:04:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamilton@pobox.com) Received: from woodstock.monkey.net (d65.as14.nwbl0.wi.voyager.net [169.207.134.65]) by mailgw00.execpc.com (8.9.1) id WAA27324; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 22:04:20 -0500 Received: from pobox.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woodstock.monkey.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A40C016F; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 22:05:17 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/16/1999 To: Greg Lehey Cc: Dale Wharton , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: cheapest laptop for FreeBSD? winmodems? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 03 Aug 2000 09:41:37 +0930." <20000803094137.P36094@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 22:05:17 -0500 From: Jon Hamilton Message-Id: <20000803030517.A40C016F@woodstock.monkey.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20000803094137.P36094@wantadilla.lemis.com>, Greg Lehey wrote: } On Wednesday, 2 August 2000 at 19:57:20 -0400, Dale Wharton wrote: } > Dale Wharton ve2ndw@rac.ca M O N T R E A L Te souviens-tu? [...] } > Jon, many thanks for your very constructive remarks. Your aside } > about winmodems rang my bell (internet access is essential for } > my purpose). } } You always have the option of a PCMCIA modem. That's what just about } everybody does. The problem in this case is that the laptop in question can only use one PCMCIA card at a time, so you'd have to choose between a modem or an ethernet interface :( I suppose another alternative would be to use a regular modem on the serial port or a USB modem, but those have the obvious disadvantage of being external and tedious to haul around, if you want them to be mobile with you. } > Which raises another question: how does one learn in advance if a } > modem is a winmodem? The only literature that I saw, a brief spec } > sheet on the Compaq Presario 1200-XL115, says simply "Modem 56kbps } > with V.90 Support." } } 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. -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message