From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Mar 30 13:28:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from richard2.pil.net (richard2.pil.net [207.8.164.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 27B4137B8B7 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 13:28:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from up@3.am) Received: (qmail 18569 invoked by uid 1825); 30 Mar 2000 21:28:43 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 30 Mar 2000 21:28:43 -0000 Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 16:28:43 -0500 (EST) From: X-Sender: up@richard2.pil.net To: Brian Handy Cc: FreeBSD mobile Subject: Re: Vaio vs Portege plus modems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Brian Handy wrote: > On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Sean O'Connell wrote: > > >Both (i believe) are the evil winmodems. Sony used to use real > >modems (for instance, the one in my 505TR is real). > > Just for the record, what is the deal with the WinModems? While I've > parrotted this same line that they're bad, I gotta admit...I don't know > why. None of my machines currently have one. (Sigh...I want a new > laptop.) > > I've heard vague references to slower, different, blah,... but I'm not > clear on what the problem really is with these. When the boss gets a new > laptop and I tell him to buy a modem in addition to the one that's > built-in, he's going to want to know why! The problem is, as the name implies, you really need Windoze to use them. That's because they're essentially "software modems". I'm suprised somebody hasn't written some sort of emulator for them, though... James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor up@3.am http://3.am ========================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message