From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Aug 2 21:57: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6991A37B691; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 21:57:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA01843; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 14:26:26 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 14:26:26 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Nate Williams , Brett Glass Cc: Darryl Okahata , Mike Smith , Jay Kuri , hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron Message-ID: <20000803142626.K87263@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000802184929.053c22f0@localhost> <200008030328.VAA27596@nomad.yogotech.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000802214431.04609df0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20000802140411.05180a70@localhost> <200008020116.SAA15805@mina.soco.agilent.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000801154059.04c50b80@localhost> <20000802110407.F36094@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20000803094307.Q36094@wantadilla.lemis.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000802184929.053c22f0@localhost> <200008030328.VAA27596@nomad.yogotech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <200008030328.VAA27596@nomad.yogotech.com>; from nate@yogotech.com on Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 09:28:36PM -0600 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wednesday, 2 August 2000 at 21:28:36 -0600, Nate Williams wrote: > And don't give me the "Linux works" answer, since it's not always > valid. Sometimes it is (because Linux tends to support more hardware, > albeit poorly), but it's certainly not a certainity. For what it's > worth, FreeBSD sometimes supports certain hardware much better than > Linux does. Exactly my experience, using RedHat 6.1. On Wednesday, 2 August 2000 at 21:47:19 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > At 09:28 PM 8/2/2000, Nate Williams wrote: >> And don't give me the "Linux works" > > Why not? Linux works because it takes a more sensible approach to > IRQ allocation for the PC Card sockets. Care to elaborate? On Wednesday, 2 August 2000 at 21:44:18 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > At 06:59 PM 8/2/2000, Greg Lehey wrote: >> Have you tried this? I've had really terrible problems with RedHat on >> the same laptop which installed FreeBSD with no trouble at all. > > The laptop came with Red Hat preinstalled, and I tried reinstalling. > No problems. Ah. I suspect that's one designed for this laptop. Go and get a generic RedHat and see what happens. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message