Info world published Feb. 1, 2000, an artical by Dan Neel, where Dell announced
that it is pre-installing Linux on two of its laptop offerints. The Dell
Inspiron 7500, and the Latitude CPX. They were to be shipping these by the
second week of Feb, 2000.
Herman
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> If that's the internal modem that Dell ships, it's a WinModem.
>
> The DeskPorte Fast 100 combo card, for one, works well. Haven't tried
> others.
>
> On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> | 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.
> | >--
> | >"Brian, the man from babbleon-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> | >Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org
> | >Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents.
> | >Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
> --
> "Brian, the man from babbleon-on" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org
> Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents.
> Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com.
