[lug] Laptop recommendations

[ljp]

On Thursday 23 May 2002 04:46 pm, you wrote:
> 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.
>

Conexant is starting to write some software modem drivers. I own a Toshiba 
1605 that I can now use the modem in linux with it:

http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv

ljp

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