I tend to purchase used equipment from a refurbisher, so this is old equipment.
Dell Latitude E6440 installs fine, but bluetooth does not have drivers that I can find. Some weird Dell labeled part. There was some stuff on their site indicating you could make it work, but I'm lazy so I used a USB dongle for my bluetooth. Toshiba Satellite A665 installed fine and everything worked very well. It did not have bluetooth, so I picked up a USB dongle for that. Both machines running ASCII. Installation was a matter of plugging in the thumbdrive, booting and installing. No special weirdness to work around. Rod On 4/9/20 1:03 AM, tempforever wrote: > Devuan ascii successfully installed, regularly used on the following > laptops: > > Lenovo Thinkpad T550 -- the sd card reader does not work (think this > is a hardware problem though, I did get a refurbished machine) > > HP Pavillion - not sure the exact model # > > These next two ran ascii, then upgraded to beowulf: > > Toshiba Satellite A135 (i386) > > Acer Aspire AS7750G > > The HP has a problem with the builtin wifi adapter (sometimes it works, > sometimes it disappears). I believe it's overheating. May replace it > someday, but using USB wifi adapter in the meantime. > > How difficult was it? Not really any more than installing to a desktop. > Didn't run into any major problems. The installer didn't seem to be > the most intuitive for setting up LVM+LUKS volumes, but it did work, > eventually. > > > terryc wrote: >> This is a hardware question. >> Which brand and model(s) of laptop have people successfully installed >> devuan onto? >> How difficult was it? >> >> Thank You In Advance. >> >> The long story; I finally have a need to purchase my own personal >> laptop and have spent the last few days searching for such a beastie >> that I can order. >> >> I have a strong preference to not pay the Microsoft Tax and not waste >> my money on bits for which there are no linux drivers. Obviously >> running Devuan is preferable. >> >> Unfortunately, there appears to be no local vendor of Linux only >> laptops around any more. The only one in the coutry that I could >> located actually buys Win OS laptops and co-installs Linux and I'd >> prefer to avoid the future hassles that will cause(leopard-spots). >> >> Note, also having great difficulty finding out how to order such a >> beastie from the major global brands. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Dng mailing list >> Dng@lists.dyne.org >> https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng >> > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > -- Rod Rodolico Daily Data, Inc. POB 140465 Dallas TX 75214-0465 US http://dailydata.net 214.827.2170 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
