Re: any brand recomendation for a linux laptop ?

K.R. Foley
2003-01-16T15:45:59Z

Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 04:37:27PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 2003-01-16 06:40:45 -0800, Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
>>wrote in message <20030116144045.GC30736@work.bitmover.com>:
>>
>>>On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 02:14:27PM +0000, Andrew Walrond wrote:
>>
>>>I like the T23 myself. Wireless, ethernet, modem, DVD, fast.
>>
>>Serial modem, or some winmodem type? I'd prefer to have a "real" modem,
>>though...
>
>
> Winmodem. I'm pretty sure I got it to work under Linux at some point but
> I'll admit that I boot into windows on those rare occasions I need a modem.
> Getting that stuff to work under Linux is fragile at best.

Don't know if it's the same modem or not but there is a driver for the
winmodem in my 600E distributed by IBM at the following link:

http://www-124.ibm.com/acpmodem/

Hope this helps.