From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 5 23:05:46 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D125216A4CE for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 23:05:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E159C43D31 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 23:05:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 0C73185655; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 09:35:42 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 09:35:42 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: "julesg @ newebmail. com" Message-ID: <20050105230541.GW53273@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20050105112105.GS53273@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="DMefDzZywwCHZelG" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 23:05:46 -0000 --DMefDzZywwCHZelG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [Resequenced, format recovered. Time: 50 seconds. See http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Wednesday, 5 January 2005 at 13:24:10 -0500, julesg@newebmail.com wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 21:51:05 +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> [resequenced; time 1 minute 37 seconds] >> >> On Wednesday, 5 January 2005 at 5:56:45 -0500, julesg@newebmail.com wr= ote: >>> On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 16:52:43 +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>> >>>> I'm thinking of buying a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop. I have a number >>>> of Dells, and on the whole I'm happy, but I've had "issues" before. >>>> Can anybody who has one of these machines (1150 only, please) tell >>>> me >>>> good or bad things about it? Have you been able to get the internal >>>> wireless card to work? >>> >>> NO! >> >> Can you be more specific? >> >>> I own one, and can't make several services work under Fbsd >> >> Which ones? What problems did you have? > > A friendly FreeBSD'er in the Netherlands helped me get some perhiperals > running; and I did learn some things for my efforts; Conexnat(?), the > modem people, are beginning to be quite responsive to the Linux the > FreeBSD communities, and I expect they will begin to offer Linux drivers > for their modems -- but right now, the 1150 Winmodem (which I require) > only works with M$ OS's. I purchased this, believing that I could make > things work with FreeBSD -- but not so. I was replacing an old Tecra and > everything worked fine, with both Linux and BSD -- not so the 1150. OK, so the "win" modem doesn't work. That's the case with most laptops, it seems. Do you have any other problems? > I made a serious mistake -- I should have come here first and asked > "What works best with FreeBSD" and now I pay for that mistake, > because when I boot up I have to look at a windoz desktop. Hopefully you would have seen more useful replies than the ones I've seen so far :-( > So Greg, DON'T YOU MAKE THAT ERROR -- find something else to buy! I can't see any error here. I don't intend to use the modem. Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. =20 For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --DMefDzZywwCHZelG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB3HLFIubykFB6QiMRApyoAJ0ap+xfpxl+pH2UGQFD6H6jEoy2rQCgp/0o MPhuqSd5CVMLBcDcwtOOJaU= =TSJy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --DMefDzZywwCHZelG--