[luau] FreeBSD Laptop.

MonMotha monmotha at indy.rr.com
Wed May 1 18:27:03 PDT 2002


If it needs drivers, it's a winmodem.  Most likely, if there are any 
form of drivers for *NIX, it's only in the form of binary kernel modules 
(exception being the MWAVE on IBM laptops, which are opensource).

Unless FreeBSD can load linux kernel modules, you're probably out of luck.

--MonMotha

al plant wrote:
> I have successfully installed FreeBSD with an XFCE GUI on a
> Dell Laptop and it works fine on a network. I have a 56K
> modem and it is detected ok but I need to know if anyone has
> set one up on a UNIX platform or even Linux. I have not done
> this before and I realize the drives that come with the UNIT
> are not for Unix or Linux OS.
> 
> Any ideas? 
> 
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