Re installing XP on Sony

[Tom Jennings]

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Jim Leonard wrote:

> Subject: Re: Re installing XP on Sony
> 
>> Thanks, that IS a helpful post.  I would love to set this up with
>> Linux like my main computer is but unfortunately Linux does not
>> support my Sprint tele-modem software that is written for MS
>
> Are you sure?  Try an extremely recent distribution; there has been progress 
> on supporting "winmodems" in the last year.

I have a Sony Vaio VX89, and linux 2.4 and 2.6 support the
linmodem (via module), freeBSD now installed, allegedly suports,
but I haven't tried it. I used wvdial for ppp.