[lug] Laptop recommendations

David Morris lists at morris-clan.net
Thu May 23 16:46:52 MDT 2002


On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 02:37:08PM -0500, John Karns wrote:
> On 22 May 2002, Hugh Brown said:
> 
> > I have a Dell 8100 that works nicely.  It has a winmodem that is
> > unsupported but the 15" screen and 1400x1050 is quite nice.  You have to
> > use nVidia's proprietary drivers to get good performance out of the
> > video card.

FYI, the winmodem is actually one of the few that *is* supported by
Linux....uses the ltmodem driver, which just needs to be downloaded and
compiled, then you use the modem through port /dev/ttyLT0.

--David




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