[TriLUG] Linux Laptop

[James Tuttle]

I admit I've never used a modem in a laptop.  I guess by the time I got
a laptop wireless was preferred method of network connectivity.

jim

Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Dec 2007, James Tuttle wrote:
> 
>> I've never had a laptop that didn't support Linux.
> 
> Ihave a Thinkpad 600E, which was difficult to get going 
> under 2.4.x/hotplug
> 
> o I used a xircom combo ethernet/modem. The modem collided 
> with the internal winmodem and the hot plug scripts thought 
> the ethernet card was a modem (or the modem was an ethernet 
> card, forget which). I got this sorted out by subscribing to 
> the hotplug mailing list.
> 
> o the sound worked via a recipe I found on the internet
> 
> Now with 2.6.x/udev, none of these work anymore.
> 
> I would be careful of laptops with internal winmodems
> 
> Joe
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