From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 30 16:14:40 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DFDD16A418 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:14:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ceco108@gimail.af.mil) Received: from athena.hrdnet.com (athena.hrdnet.com [208.194.177.119]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3357113C480 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:14:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ceco108@gimail.af.mil) Received: from gimail.af.mil (unverified [208.194.177.29]) by athena.hrdnet.com (Vircom SMTPRS 4.4.571.23) with ESMTP id ; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:19:20 -0400 X-Modus-BlackList: 208.194.177.29=OK;ceco108@gimail.af.mil=OK X-Modus-Trusted: 208.194.177.29=YES X-Modus-Audit: FALSE;0;0;0 Message-ID: <81502693b994451ea9aed8834c87f607.ceco108@gimail.af.mil> X-EM-APIVersion: 2, 0, 2, 6 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) From: "Cecil" To: truckman@FreeBSD.org Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:15:20 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: cwelug@googlegroups.com, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: Re: hot swapping USB drives and install packages or ports from theCD X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:14:40 -0000 Thanks Don, I have a 3Com PC card with modem that I will try. ------- Original Message ------- >From : Don Lewis[mailto:truckman@FreeBSD.org] Sent : 7/29/2007 6:28:11 PM To : ceco108@gimail.af.mil Cc : freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org; cwelug@googlegroups.com Subject : RE: Re: hot swapping USB drives and install packages or ports from theCD On 28 Jul, Cecil wrote: > Hello all, > > I am a newbie to unix but have installed FreeBSD 6.2 with Gnome > desktop 2.16.1 on my ThinkPad R40 and I have some problems: > 1. I can't connect to the Internet because my friend has dial-up with > MSN and I can't get the moden to connect I'm running FreeBSD on my R40. The internal modem is a winmodem and isn't supported. I've got a Zonet ZFM5600 PC Card modem that works fine. Other PC Card (or USB?) modems should also work, as long as they look like a serial port peripheral to the OS and aren't winmodems. If you have the port expander or docking station for your R40, you should be able to connect an external modem to the serial port.