From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tbmoore Subject: Re: Which laptops are good for linux+packet(sound card) for County ARES? Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 17:36:46 -0400 Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3DB07EEE.9080804@bealenet.com> References: <3DB026AA.9060309@bealenet.com> <20021018212927.GA15679@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Nate Bargmann Cc: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org 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 >> >