From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 20 19:56:12 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 106C416A4B3 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 19:56:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fs5-4.us4.outblaze.com (205-158-62-136.outblaze.com [205.158.62.136]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2CBCB43FE9 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 19:56:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luomat@operamail.com) Received: (qmail 3266 invoked from network); 21 Sep 2003 02:53:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO Tim) (luomat:operamail.com?operamail.com@199.35.222.150) by 205-158-62-136.outblaze.com with SMTP; 21 Sep 2003 02:53:23 -0000 Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 22:56:02 -0400 To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey References: <20030920211056.T21556@freeman.4gh.net> <20030921022823.GW16686@wantadilla.lemis.com> From: Timothy Luoma Organization: http://tntluoma.com Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-15 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20030921022823.GW16686@wantadilla.lemis.com> User-Agent: Opera7.20/Win32 M2 build 3139 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 02:56:12 -0000 On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 11:58:23 +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > 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. Well.... poop. The i7500 will work, according to Joshua Malone[1]. We talked a week or so ago and he said that he had gotten it working. Normally I wouldn't quote private mail, but I'm going to assume it's OK to break that rule as it may help others trying to accomplish this. Joshua was exceedingly helpful and talking with him really encouraged me to give it a try. Here is what he had to say about the Winmodem in the Dell Inspiron 7500 # begin I DO have the winmodem working on the 7500. In /usr/ports/comms/ltmdm/ there is a port of the Linux lucent winmodem driver ("ltmdm") for FreeBSD. This is basically a shim for the Linux driver that makes a FreeBSD loadable module. However, there is a flaw in the port's design in that it installs the script to load the device driver in /usr/local/etc/rc.d so it gets loaded after the system boots. To properly initialize this modem, you need to copy the driver ("ltmdm.ko" I believe) to /modules and add the line 
ltmdm_load="YES"
to the file /boot/loader.conf to make the module load before