Fwd: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Wednesday,  5 January 2005 at 23:04:12 +0100, Rainer Duffner wrote:
> julesg at newebmail.com 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.

No, but it has a PCMCIA slot, which you could use for a PCMCIA modem. 

Greg
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