Hi Michael,
there are just as many compatibilty problems, with any pc
card that you buy. I think a lot of the modems that come with laptops are
win modems (well thi internal ones at least), as this reduces power
comsumption. Check out the Linux on Laptop for more info and links.
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
I kinda wish I'd gone here first and done a little bit of research, although
price and availability of the laptop I got was the biggest consideration.
The problems I have encountered so far ar that I bought an adaptec scsi pc
card, thinking that it would be okay, only to find out that it wasn't
supported. The same went for the internal modem, since its a win modem, I'm
out of luck, but the ethernet card was supported (Alloy en-6200p2). As with
setting up Xwindows, about an hour of playing around with XF86Config, and
tips from the net got it going under 5.2. then I installed 5.2, and it was
able to get a basic Xwindows running under the initial configuration.
cheers
Johann
Michael Stearne wrote:
> I just got a HP Omnibook Laptop and want to install Linux on it. I need
> to buy a modem for it and want to make it as painless(read cheap) as
> possible. I was wondering are there issues with PC Card Modems like
> there are with Win Modems in Linux. Are there Win Modems in PC Cards or
> are they all real modems?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael Stearne
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