[plug] American modems

[Jon L. Miller]

That would depend.  When I moved here from the states I brought with me
several modems from the States and they worked okay both in my laptop
and servers.

Jon
On Sat, 2002-06-01 at 17:02, James Elliott wrote:
> <original message below>
> 
> If it is an American modem, wouldn't you need to replace the AT& commands
> with those compatible with AusTel rules rahter than the US rules?
> 
> James Elliott
> Ravensthorpe Computers
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Anthony Jones" <ajones at clear.net.nz>
> To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
> Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2002 3:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [plug] Watching DVD's under Linux
> 
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> > I have a Toshiba Satellite 2805-201 which I purchased in Los Angeles. It
> has
> > the following hardware:
> >
> > Lucent Modem (I think it's called a Xircom or something).
> > Toshiba DVD drive
> > Savage4 video adapter
> > Yamaha sound card
> >
> > The Lucent modem has drivers availble for it - there's a bit of faffing
> > around to get them working. Choose carefully which kind of Internal modem
> you
> > get. The hardest thing to work out is what your modem actually is. For the
> > Lucent modems there are Debian packages available - they're really good
> > because you just download them and install them with dpkg.
> >
> > As for video - you need to have video hardware which supports Xv video,
> > otherwise your video will be too slow. This is supported on the Savage4.
> >
> > Xine is the easiest DVD software to install on Debian Woody. I use it -
> it's
> > very good. I've got a syncing problem with sound to sort out but it used
> to
> > work so I'm sure it's something I can fix.
> >
> > My machine won't boot Linux from CD but it will boot Windoze. I had to use
> > floppies to get started then loaded everything off CD.
> >
> > Another thing - I had to get my DVD drive replaced THREE TIMES before I
> got
> > one which read CDs, music CDs and DVDs but of course this was done under
> > Toshibas warranty even though I bought the laptop from another country.
> >
> > It's a while since I installed it all but if you have any trouble then I
> am
> > willing to help.
> >
> > Anthony
> >
> > On Friday 31 May 2002 11:05, Buddrige, David wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I am currently in the marketplace for a Notebook computer.  There is one
> in
> > > particular that I am currently looking at - a Toshiba Satellite 1800.
> One
> > > of the sellig points (for me) with this particular laptop, is that it
> comes
> > > with a built-in DVD player.  However, I plan to run it on GNU/Linux -
> > > probably Debian.  I would like to use it to watch DVD movies.  I note
> that
> > > there are several Linux/DVD projects; does anyone know how mature these
> are.
> > >
> > > Also, given that the DVD drive is instead of having a CD-drive, will it
> act
> > > like a normal CD player for me to install the OS using standard Debian
> CD's,
> > > or am I going to have to do special configuration just for the machine
> to
> > > read the Linux CD's off the DVD player?
> > >
> > > Alternately, any suggestions on laptops up to the value of $2,500 that
> > > support Linux are much appreciated.
> > >
> > > thanks heaps guys
> > >
> > > David Buddrige
> > >
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