Re: Dell i7500 or Toshiba 1005-S157?

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 <[email protected]>
> 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
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