Update of the article (1st part):
- Note the Web is also a good place to find infos on a specific laptop configuration for FreeBSD. - Give an example of winmodem driver present in the ports tree. - FreeBSD 4.X supports 16-bit cards and 5.X both 16-bit and 32-bit cards. Changes coming from: PR: docs/53292 Submitted by: Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at>
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are not encountered on desktop machines and are not commonly
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discussed (laptops, even more than desktops, are fine-tuned for
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Microsoft Windows). This article aims to discuss some of these
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issues.</para>
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issues. Several people have also documented their experiences
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with &os; on specific laptop models on webpages which are not
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part of the &os; documentation. You might very well find some
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information if you type the name of your laptop model and the
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word <quote>&os;</quote> into a search engine of your
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choice.</para>
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<title>XFree86</title>
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<quote>winmodems</quote> whose
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functionality is implemented in software, for which only windows
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drivers are normally available (though a few drivers are beginning
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to show up for other operating systems). If that is the case, you
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to show up for other operating systems; for example, if your modem has a Lucent LT chipset it might be supported by the <filename role="package">comms/ltmdm</filename> port). If that is the case, you
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need to buy an external modem: the most compact option is
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probably a PC Card (PCMCIA) modem, discussed below, but
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serial or USB modems may be cheaper. Generally, regular
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<devicename>pccard1</devicename> etc on devices like
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<devicename>pcic0</devicename>).</para>
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<para>FreeBSD currently supports 16-bit PCMCIA cards, but not
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<para>&os; 4.X supports 16-bit PCMCIA cards, and
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&os; 5.X supports both 16-bit and
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32-bit (<quote>CardBus</quote>) cards. A database of supported
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cards is in the file <filename>/etc/defaults/pccard.conf</filename>.
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Look through it, and preferably buy cards listed there. Cards not
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