Re: Fwd: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?
Rainer Duffner <[email protected]>
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[email protected] wrote: >A friendly FreeBSD'er in the Netherlands helped me get some perhiperals >running; and I did learn some things for my efforts; Conexnat(?), the >modem people, are beginning to be quite responsive to the Linux the >FreeBSD communities, and I expect they will begin to offer Linux drivers >for their modems -- but right now, the 1150 Winmodem (which I require) >only works with M$ OS's. I purchased this, believing that I could make >things work with FreeBSD -- but not so. I was replacing an old Tecra and >everything worked fine, with both Linux and BSD -- not so the 1150. > >I made a serious mistake -- I should have come here first and asked "What >works best with FreeBSD" and now I pay for that mistake, because when I >boot up I have to look at a windoz desktop. > >So Greg, DON'T YOU MAKE THAT ERROR -- find something else to buy! > > Does it have a serial port ? Then, one could use a serial modem. Rainer -- =================================================== ~ Rainer Duffner - [email protected] ~ ~ Freising - Munich - Germany ~ ~ Unix - Linux - BSD - OpenSource - Security ~ ~ http://www.ultra-secure.de/~rainer/pubkey.pgp ~ =================================================== _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"