OT: Linux flavors...

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 11:31:50AM -0400, brian at aljex.com wrote:
> > It sounds like you have teh same model HPaq laptop as my client; did
> > you get the modem and suspend stuff working?
> 
> zd7000

I'll have to check; I think the HP equiv of the Presario R3000T is
called the 5000...

> never really tried to get the modem working, and acpi is a little funky on
> freebsd although it does shut down gracefully in response to hitting the power
> button. Never really tried to get suspend or hibernate to work outside of
> windows. everything works in windows as well as anything ever works in windows.

<chuckle>

> I doubt there is a freebsd equivalent of linmodem, and I don't use linux on
> this except the rare knoppix/gnoppix boot so don't know if that works or not.
> There is a linux area on www.zd7000forums.com where many people ask each other
> the same things and a few people seem to have actually figured out a thing or
> two.

I couldn't ID the modem on mine, so I'm not sure if the linmodm stuff
will work or not.  I'll check the forums, though; thanks.

Cheers,
-- jra
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