leasing linux laptops

[Scott Allen]

On Tue Mar 25,2008 10:43:22 AM Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 06:15:37AM -0400, Scott Allen wrote:
>> How about the built in modem? (Presumably it's a winmodem of some
>> type.)
> 
> I have no idea.  Who even looks at a modem these days?  I would
> be surprised if it wasn't a winmodem, although it could be one
> of the ones for which there does exist drivers (although binary
> only generally). No idea.  I have no idea what modem is in my
> wife's laptop either which also has great linux support.  Maybe
> its modem isn't supported either.

Well, at home I'm strictly on dial-up so a functioning modem would be 
somewhat important to me. Since most laptops don't include a serial 
port these days, using an external modem becomes more complicated, 
not to mention inconvenient.

Some ISPs offer a fixed amount of dial-up time. This can be used to 
get you by if your high speed link is having temporary problems.

In a business environment, the ability to send the occasional fax 
might be useful.

The winmodem in my Thinkpad T22, which has a Lucent chipset, works 
fine with Linux.

For the T61, it's possible that the following drivers may work (but 
for all the features, you would have to pay):
<http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/>


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