Subject: Re: thin laptop recommendations
To: Brian Stark <bstark@siemens-psc.com>
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
List: current-users
Date: 06/01/2000 12:29:34
| The built-in modem is not supported by NetBSD (If you get one with an
| external port replicator you can connect it to an external modem). The
| sound card only works in half duplex mode. I also can't access the USB
| floppy drive when booting from the internal hard drive, but booting from
| the USB floppy works (strange!).

usb floppy support for the vaio (Y-E data flashbuster) now works in
-current as of Monday.

Thanks, Lennart!

In re modems, personally, I recommend a pcmcia modem rather than
an external modem.

--jhawk