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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Wed, 29 Jan 1997, Shaun Schwarten wrote:

> I looked under the FAQ and did not find the answer so I'm writing.
> 
> I am a toshiba Laptop user with a PCMCIA modem and am curious if 
> it will still work after installing freeBSD.  Is this going to 
> be a problem?
> If so, how can it be fixed?

For modems, you will need to install the PAO distribution.  It meshes very
nicely with FreeBSD, full and very detailed instructions included.

http://www.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp/person/hosokawa/PAO/

I have this running on three laptops and it is an excellent package.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major