Re: [newbie] PCMCIA modems

2000-11-04 Thread bampolsk
Eric, Can you please give me some specifics. I'd really appreciate it. In addition to wanting to use an alternate modem, I'd like to use the Realport's Lan capabilities. The Armada came with a 3com 10/100 ethernet card... you know, the kind with a dongle hanging off which connects to the loca

Re: [newbie] PCMCIA modems

2000-11-01 Thread bampolsk
Some pcmcia modems are indeed winmodems. Just half an ago i was looking at one. I use a Compaq Armada M700. Compaq, in its wisdom, "upgraded" the modem in this unit. What used to be a perfectly fine real internal modem is now a winmodem. I have worked with the winmodem(linmodem?) in the Armad

Re: [newbie] StarCraft: slow under Wine but...

2000-10-29 Thread bampolsk
Suggestion: download win4lin from www.trelos.com and try it. It's not free. But at $35 is in my opinion a bargain. Once you have installed win4lin, and then Windows 95 or 98 under it, run(do not walk) out and buy "Optimizing Windows for Games, Graphics and Multimedia" by David Farquhar(O'Reill