As far as I know (limited expertise in this area as yet) the answer is yes,
_if_ you have available the necessary information to enable you to write a
character device driver for it.
Peter
----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry K van Eyken" <vaneyken@sympatico.ca>
To: <unrev-II@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 5:39 PM
Subject: Re: [unrev-II] "He who controls the bootloader"
> Can Linux accomodate a Winmodem?
>
> Henry
>
> Jack Park wrote:
>
> > At 09:16 PM 9/8/2001 +0100, you wrote:
> > > >From personal experience of getting caught out by buying a machine
that
> > >turned out to have an unadvertised WinModem things are even uglier
than
> > >that.
> > >
> > >Peter
> >
> > But wait! There's more...
> > I bought a Sony PCG-XG38 VIAO laptop. I should have been suspicious
when I
> > noticed the "Designed for Microsoft(r) Windows(TM) Me. I didn't.
> >
> > I later installed Windows 2000 on it. Guess what. Much of what used to
be
> > in firmware -- function keys and so forth -- are now locked up in DLLs
such
> > that Windows 2000 would not allow me to, for example, switch to an
external
> > monitor, and so forth, including battery management. In short, I could
not
> > use the laptop for what it was intended to be: a mobile platform. And,
> > Sony doesn't (or at least didn't have at the time) have a "fix" for this
> > oversight. In short, Sony is actually selling a product that violates
one
> > of the unwritten "advantages" of Wintel products: upward mobility. As
it
> > is, I'm stuck with a laptop that crashes often. Eventually, I'll hose
MS
> > and install Linux on it.
> >
> > Part of me is inclined not to send this because it's only marginally
> > related to the Unfinished Revolution. But, I can cast these reflections
of
> > "the uglies" into Unrev by way of this thought: What will a Wintel OHS
> > look like?
> >
> > Jack
> >
> >
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