From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Feb 26 16: 9:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0318D37B6B7 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 16:09:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f1R05sl50931; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 16:05:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 16:08:56 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: uid0@catastrophe.net Subject: RE: Inspiron 5000e Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 26-Feb-01 uid0@catastrophe.net wrote: > I'm sitting around toying with the idea of reinstalling my little > 'junior' linux box this evening. I have a Dell Inspiron 5000e and > was curious to know if there are any "evils" that may occur if I do this. > > I only ask the list as I need it for work in the morning, > and would like to actually sleep this evening. > > Any help is appreciated. freebsd-mobile is the list to ask about laptops on. Esp. as this laptop has come up in the discussions there at least 5 times this past week. :) APM is broken cause the APM BIOS is broken, but most everything else works. (Sound, X 4.0.2, etc.) > BTW - I have a Xircom RealPort2 CardBus card - any glitches with it? Cardbus is only supported at all on -current, and cardbus doesn't work on the 5000e specifically. Regular pccard cards work fine though. I'm typing this mail on a 5000e running -current atm. > That's the reason I'm giving up on the "other" OS. Well, cardbus won't be in a supported release until 5.0, but you'll prolly want to wait until 5.1 for that. > rewt -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message