On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 21:23 +0800, Aubrey Li wrote: > On 7/26/07, Kaiwai Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 05:34 -0700, Mike DeMarco wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 05:10 -0700, Mike DeMarco > > > > wrote: > > > > > I need to rant a bit: > > > > > > > > > > I had ordered a new laptop and when it arrived I > > > > installed OpenSolaris b68. I was having many problems > > > > with the keyboard and the NIC on the box. The NIC > > > > driver had plumbed the interface and brought it up > > > > but I was unable to send any packets or receive. I > > > > susspected that there may be something wrong with the > > > > hardware but could not prove it. I had to install > > > > windoz and when the problems migrated there as well I > > > > called the vendor to report it as a hardware problem. > > > > I told the vendor that the NIC was not working > > > > properly on Solaris or Windows. The vendor started > > > > blaming the solaris install as the culprit and that I > > > > should completely wipe the harddrive and just install > > > > windoz. I did this out of discuss with the ignorance > > > > of the world towards solaris. I formated the whole > > > > harddrive > > > > > for windoz and installed XP. I was still having the > > > > problems and called the vendor. telling them that > > > > even if it had worked I did not buy this laptop to > > > > run Windoz and it was totally useless to me in this > > > > confiration. > > > > > > > > > > What the vendor said next set me ablaze. > > > > > > > > > > "WE NEVER ADVERTISED THE SYSTEM WOULD WORK WITH > > > > SOLARIS" > > > > > > > > > > I hate this. Why does the world have to use windoz? > > > > Why can we not buy a piece of hardware and put what > > > > we want on it without being harassed by the seller > > > > that it must have this software on it or we will not > > > > honor our warranty? > > > > > > > > Pissed off! > > > > Just out of curiosity - what was the brand - bit of a > > > > name and shame is > > > > in order. > > > > > > > > Matthew > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > > > > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > > > > > > I did not want to mention brands because I have had this same problem > > > with every computer that I have bought. > > > > Interesting, Toshiba and this HP I'm running right now have been the two > > best machines to run Solaris on. The only thing not supported on this is > > my webcam - its UVC compliant but requires a firmware to be uploaded > > which Solaris doesn't support. > > > > Matthew > > Interesting for me as well, :) I was using DELL laptop to run Solaris happily. > keyboard and NIC works properly.
One thing I like with most Dells, rather than wasting R&D on create weird proprietary garbage they simply just grab the Intel reference boards, etc. shove them in the case and sell it. Nice and simple. I would have bought one but Harvey Norman gave me an offer I couldn't refuse :-) I just hope that Sun pulls finger and supports the webcam firmware uploading - if they do that it would support 5 models of camera in one go. Matthew _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
