FreeBSD laptop with: 56k modem, ethernet, Xfree86

Kevin Oberman oberman at es.net
Tue Jun 10 13:40:05 PDT 2003


> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:20:33 -0400
> From: Scott Lambert <lambert at lambertfam.org>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
> 
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 10:12:32PM +0200, culley harrelson wrote:
> > culley harrelson wrote:
> > >I need to set up a freebsd laptop with a 56k modem, ethernet and 
> > >Xfree86.  Does anyone have any recommendations for me?  I am more 
> > >concerned about purchasing hardware that will work than I am concerned 
> > >about price.
> > >
> > 
> > Reading some more it looks like most laptops come with winmodems that do 
> > not work.  But there is no reason why an external modem couldn't be 
> > hooked up through the com port eh?  That should open things up for me...
> 
> There are also the PCMCIA based modems.  I used one for a year.  But
> now, my Lucent Winmodem works for me using the ltmdm port.

Does this mean that ltmdm now suuports ac'97 modems? Guess I need to
try to install it and see if it works on my T30.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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