"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <b...@iguanasuicide.net> writes: > In <lyk51l57jw....@gfn.org>, Scott Gifford wrote: >>"Todd A. Jacobs" <nos...@codegnome.org> writes: >>> Dell purportedly sells a netbook with Ubuntu on it, but I haven't tried >>> it myself. >> >>I have a Dell Inspiron E1505 that came with Ubuntu pre-installed, and >>it works quite well. The only thing that has never worked right is >>the modem. > > Oh right, I never used the modem so it never concerned me. IIRC, There are > free drivers for the modem, but they will only connect at 14.4Kbps. ISTR > that Dell makes available a .deb (that is not freely redistributable, so not > appropriate for non-free) on their drivers website that will let the modem > run at the full 56Kbps.
They do, and I've installed it, but it's never worked reliably for me. ----Scott. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
