On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 11:10 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:18:46 +0000 (UTC) > debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org wrote: > > > > > By searching for a laptop with a real modem, before even taking > > > > Linux into account, you have eliminated 100% of all available > > > > options: It doesn't exist. > > The Thinkpad 770 has a modem. Sometimes, quite cheap, you can find one > on Craigslist. It works with Linux (but, some tweaking is necessary). > It's an older computer; so, a full blown (kde/gnome) desktop is not > recommended. That's not a modem in the 770, it's another sound card with the wrong connector (ie, a "winmodem"). Google verifies this. It can't modulate or demodulate on it's own, it has to offload it to software running on the main CPU: Pretty close to the exact opposite of a modem. -- Paul Johnson baloo@ursine.ca
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