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Re: Bleh! win modem on my presario 1920



On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 09:51:31AM -0600, Charles Lewis wrote:
> I just spent christmas vacation configuring a laptop to dual boot (it's a
> shared office laptop). ran fips, installed base system from floppies and
> then used the cd that came with "Learn Debian GNU/Linux". Everything went
> pretty good (considering my ignorance) until some packages decided they
> didn't want to install. "No problem," I said. "I'll just configure my modem
> and connect to the internet to update the packages." About 4 hours later, I
> discover that my laptop has a win modem in it. :(

Got an open PCMCIA slot?  I know there are some good deals on 33.6 PCMCIA
modems that aren't WinModems out there... 

Not as nice as having a 56K, but out here in US West territory, it's rare
to get a connection above 33.6 anyway.  (He said, from the DSL line...)

-- 
Nate Duehr <nate@natetech.com>

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