From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 20 19:28:30 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07BB916A4B3 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 19:28:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC75043FB1 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 19:28:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB6F92BD49 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2003 12:28:26 +1000 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id F2752518ED; Sun, 21 Sep 2003 11:58:23 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 11:58:23 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Timothy Luoma Message-ID: <20030921022823.GW16686@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20030920211056.T21556@freeman.4gh.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="tuYRN1zEaS85jg/Y" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: Stuart Barkley cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell i7500 or Toshiba 1005-S157? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 02:28:30 -0000 --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 > 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--