From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 28 13:11:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from valiant.cnchost.com (valiant.concentric.net [207.155.252.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7160637B719 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 13:11:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@amgroupadmin.com) Received: from chris (las-DSL113-cust059.mpowercom.net [208.57.113.59]) by valiant.cnchost.com id QAA17429; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:11:11 -0500 (EST) [ConcentricHost SMTP Relay 1.10] Message-ID: <004901c0a1ca$f9d49c20$0c00a8c0@amgroupadmin.com> From: "Chris Smith" To: "Freebsd Questions" Subject: Re: E-machine Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 13:11:10 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 Disposition-Notification-To: "Chris Smith" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Although I have never tried loading FreeBSD on one of them, they seem to work fine with MS-Windows and the price is right. I would suppose you can load FreeBSD if you install a FreeBSD-supported NIC into it. The e-machines are not high end, but then they at the bottom of the price range too, you (usually) get what you pay for. Still, they seem to be reliable enough to do something useful with (just ditch the winmodem, but then, even $2500 PCs come with winmodems nowadays). _________________________________________________________________________ Chris Smith American Group Administrators IT Department First National Administrators ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Hovey" To: "Rick Hamell" Cc: ; "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 12:05 PM Subject: Re: E-machine > > > Has anyone on the list had any luck getting an e-machine 533id to work with > > > BSD? I get through the whole install, but it never picks up my pci based > > > ethernet card....any suggestions on how to get it to do so? > > > > Dump that piece of junk... they make Packard Bells look > > good. Seriously... > > I dont know where you got your experience of them from - but I like them - > they are pretty hassle free. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message