Re: FreeBSD 7.1R on laptop

[Pongthep Kulkrisada]

Hi,

Thanks for your response.

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 1:13 AM,  greg.st...@sungard.com wrote:
 Some laptops do come with COM ports still.  Usually they are the
 business models.  For example, the Dell Latitude 820's have them.
Actually I don't want to adhere with such thing.
I think laptop with COM port will be extinct very soon due to marketing.
I don't want to find the solution again after says 5 years.
I believe that MANY people here are using FreeBSD on laptops without COM port.
But I don't know how they fix the problem of internal modem built with
the laptop.
The only solution I can think right now is staying in LAN and behind NAT.

Thanks,
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Re: FreeBSD 7.1R on laptop

[Wojciech Puchar]

I am using FBSD 7.1R on PC. But yesterday (8 Mar 09) my hard disk was
physically broken. My machine is very old anyway. So I want to buy a
new laptop (notebook). I have some questions.


simply getting new hard drive could be enough.



1. Previously I use ADSL but now I go back to 56k serial modem. The
problem is new laptops do not provide COM port (/dev/cuad?). I must
use internal modem built with the laptop. I'm not sure whether this
internal modem can be found by FBSD 7.1R or not. If not, how to do?
(Sorry I never used laptop.)


check what modem. for lucent winmodems there is WORKING driver in ports. 
works on my IBM T23.


simply check the hardware. or use external modems with USB connector.

Check if Hayes compatible or so label are on modem package - if so, it 
behaves like serial port modem just connected through USB, you'll use some 
of USB serial port drivers.


if no - it's winmodem, most likely incompatible with anything except 
windoze.

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RE: FreeBSD 7.1R on laptop

[Greg.Stark]

Some laptops do come with COM ports still.  Usually they are the
business models.  For example, the Dell Latitude 820's have them.  



-Original Message-
From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Pongthep
Kulkrisada
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 11:35 AM
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: FreeBSD 7.1R on laptop

Hi all,

I am using FBSD 7.1R on PC. But yesterday (8 Mar 09) my hard disk was
physically broken. My machine is very old anyway. So I want to buy a
new laptop (notebook). I have some questions.

1. Previously I use ADSL but now I go back to 56k serial modem. The
problem is new laptops do not provide COM port (/dev/cuad?). I must
use internal modem built with the laptop. I'm not sure whether this
internal modem can be found by FBSD 7.1R or not. If not, how to do?
(Sorry I never used laptop.)

2. Previously, I used LILO boot manager (from Linux) for selecting
FBSD, Linux or WinXP. But nowadays most of the time I use only FBSD
and don't use Linux at all. So I don't want to waste the space
installing linux on my new laptop. But I use XP occassionally. I need
to know whether FBSD boot manager can select and boot XP or not? How
to do it? I didn't find it in the handbook.
Note that I know grub. But I really want to know the way, the system
provide. Because I have a long story of this problem. Once (5 years
ago) I installed FBSD success but without caution. I rebooted then I
could not run the freshly installed system. Because there was no
options for selecting the new system. :-( That time I ended up with
LILO to fix the problem. But this time I just don't want to install
Linux. So I want to use only what, the system provides.

Thanks,
Pongthep
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