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: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 20:40:58 -0400 Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3DB49E9A.7020309@bealenet.com> References: <3DAEE3AE.3030808@bealenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: tbmoore Cc: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org Thanks for all the help. I will let you know which way we go with the decision. But it sounds like there is a chance the 600E soundcard will work as is, if it is the right card, and if it doesn't, the external modem or tnc will certainly work. I'll look up the Modem method - I guess that method still uses laptop software to generate the input to the modem, and the modem interfaces to the radio, while a TNC only needs the pc as a terminal (dumb, or otherwise) and does all the other "layers" in the TNC. Is that correct? Do you have a favorite place to read about it? 73 Boyd, KO4WK tbmoore wrote: > We want to set up a laptop w/Linux and w/soundcard to do packet for > our Emergency Service for the Caroline County ARES net in Virginia. > > What brand/model do you recommend? Can we do it with an used laptop in > the $500 range? Is the IBM Thinkpad 600 a good one? Thanks. > > Boyd KO4WK@arrl.net -- T. Boyd Moore Zech 4:6 KO4WK@ARRL.NET