It seems that almost all laptops come with win modems these days. Can anyone give hints as to which do not? (Either no modem or real modem, I just hate paying extra for a modem that won't work).
It seems that pcmcia modems are a nesessity. Thanks, Charlie On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Charles Lewis wrote: > I just spent christmas vacation configuring a laptop to dual boot (it's a > shared office laptop). ran fips, installed base system from floppies and > then used the cd that came with "Learn Debian GNU/Linux". Everything went > pretty good (considering my ignorance) until some packages decided they > didn't want to install. "No problem," I said. "I'll just configure my modem > and connect to the internet to update the packages." About 4 hours later, I > discover that my laptop has a win modem in it. :( > > I suppose all is not lost. I have a network card that I can use at work to > connect to the LAN, but I must say that I was quite depressed. Not really > any sense having a linux laptop that can't connect to the internet remotely. > > Are Win modems ever going to be supported? I suppose that is up to the > manufacturers...bleh, how depressing. > > =========================================== > Charles Lewis, Director of Administrative Computing > Southwestern Adventist University, Keene, TX > (817)556-4720 [EMAIL PROTECTED] FAX (360)397-7952 > =========================================== > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
