Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 23:04:12 +0100 From: Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop? Message-ID: <41DC645C.2060105@ultra-secure.de> In-Reply-To: <WorldClient-F200501051324.AA24100347@newebmail.com> References: <WorldClient-F200501050556.AA56450340@newebmail.com> <20050105112105.GS53273@wantadilla.lemis.com> <WorldClient-F200501051324.AA24100347@newebmail.com>
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julesg@newebmail.com wrote: >A friendly FreeBSD'er in the Netherlands helped me get some perhiperals >running; and I did learn some things for my efforts; Conexnat(?), the >modem people, are beginning to be quite responsive to the Linux the >FreeBSD communities, and I expect they will begin to offer Linux drivers >for their modems -- but right now, the 1150 Winmodem (which I require) >only works with M$ OS's. I purchased this, believing that I could make >things work with FreeBSD -- but not so. I was replacing an old Tecra and >everything worked fine, with both Linux and BSD -- not so the 1150. > >I made a serious mistake -- I should have come here first and asked "What >works best with FreeBSD" and now I pay for that mistake, because when I >boot up I have to look at a windoz desktop. > >So Greg, DON'T YOU MAKE THAT ERROR -- find something else to buy! > > Does it have a serial port ? Then, one could use a serial modem. Rainer -- =================================================== ~ Rainer Duffner - rainer@ultra-secure.de ~ ~ Freising - Munich - Germany ~ ~ Unix - Linux - BSD - OpenSource - Security ~ ~ http://www.ultra-secure.de/~rainer/pubkey.pgp ~ ===================================================
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