My Inspiron 7000 is currently dualbooting Win98SE and Mandrake 7.0.2 quite
nicely. The only problem i am having is getting the Xircom Realport
NIC/Modem working properly. NIC is fine but the modem is not cooperating.
--Dave
Brian T. Schellenberger typethed the following...
>Just a quick note . . .
>
>The newer, higher-end Inspirons (7500) are among those on which Dell
>*does* offer Linux shipped, and on which Linux works quite well.
>(That's what I'm using right now, in fact.)
>
>On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, you wrote:
>| WH Bouterse wrote:
>| >
>| > My latest attempt to bring two converts into
>| > the Linux fold has met with another delay.
>| >
>| > Dell Deminsion XPS T 500
>| > Diamond Viper Tnt 16mg AGP
>| > PCI probe "No" blank out and return to screen
>| > Same with going ahead with "yes"
>| > "error /mnt/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ card not found"
>| > I thought this card got recognized by L-M 7.0 ?
>| > Are the drivers elsewhere?
>| >
>|
>| Ummm, when the brand is Dell, not necessarily. Turtle Beach
>| Montego sound drivers on the Aureal website are stated to work
>| for all TBM sound cards EXCEPT Dell. Dell has enough buying
>| power to have OEM-only versions of cards made to their specs, and
>| often these DO require Dell drivers, even in Windows.
>|
>|
>| > "Sound Card Yamaha Corp:YMF-724F {DS-1 Audio Controller]
>| > is not supported"
>| > The sound card gets recognized, but then I get the above?
>| > Subsequently sound doesnt work. Even with sndconfig.
>|
>| www.opensound.org supposedly has a driver that works (but, with
>| Dell, who knows?) for about $30 DEFINITELY try before you buy.
>| They will let you download a driver that provides 3 hours of
>| sound before you must use the unlock code.
>|
>| >
>| > It found the Printer fine. An HP 600c
>| >
>| > This is a clean install on a new 20gig as /dev/hdb etc.
>| > With NT on /dev/hda
>| >
>| > Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
>| >
>| > Thanks
>| >
>| > William Bouterse
>| > Alaska
>|
>| Dell offers linux on SOME of its machines. I have worked on some
>| Inspirons and others not offered natively in linux by the
>| manufacturer and my success rate is lower than it is with the
>| rather proprietary Gateways and Compaqs. Again, this seems to be
>| because Dell uses cards which are driven only by its own drivers
>| even though they may appear to be similar to retail offerings.
>|
>| Civileme
>|
>| While Dell will most likely tell you they don't support linux on
>| that model, usually the tech can save you hours of fruitless
>| labor and searching by letting you know how proprietary the card
>| is--in other words, call them and ask about drivers (in Windows)
>| for the cards in question. If he refers you to a public website,
>| it is likely that you can succeed. If not, best abandon the
>| effort.
>|
>|
>| --
>| Remember that if it is done on networks, it may occur on
>| your host which is a network unto itself.
>--
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