From: tbmoore <tbmoore@bealenet.com>
To: Nate Bargmann <n0nb@networksplus.net>
Cc: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Which laptops are good for linux+packet(sound card) for County ARES?
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 17:36:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DB07EEE.9080804@bealenet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20021018212927.GA15679@localhost
Thanks, Nate. That's good to know. Is there a laptop in the $500 range
that would have a soundmodem compatible sound card under linux? We may
be forced to use the TNC - most of my team prefer that anyway.
Boyd
--
T. Boyd Moore
Zech 4:6 KO4WK@ARRL.NET
Nate Bargmann wrote:
>
>
> While I have had good luck with an aging Thinkpad 760ED, I would
> recommend anyone considering one of the older TP models first check if
> it's using the mwave chipset for sound. Mwave is not supported except
> by loading a DOS driver and then warm booting into Linux. Performance
> is poor and probably not acceptable for any applications using
> soundmodem or similar. Some models, notably the 760EL used an ESS
> chipset and they are supported, but only 8 bit audio.
>
> 73, de Nate >>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-18 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2002-10-18 15:20 ` Which laptops are good for linux+packet(sound card) for County ARES? tbmoore
2002-10-18 21:29 ` Nate Bargmann
2002-10-18 21:36 ` tbmoore [this message]
2002-10-18 21:54 ` Tomi Manninen
2002-10-19 7:20 ` Cees Tool
2002-10-19 11:20 ` John Ackermann N8UR
2002-10-19 15:00 ` Robert Donnell
2002-10-17 16:22 tbmoore
2002-10-22 0:40 ` tbmoore
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