> 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. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
