Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 08:46:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> To: Doug Denault <doug@safeport.com> Cc: "Craig, Rob" <Rob.Craig@tfeurope.com>, "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: !! Does FreeBSD run on a Dell Notebook !! Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.1010705084522.201B-100000@euphoria.confusion.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1010705111245.11298C-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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THough it has a sad tendency to run windows, I've had success with my Inspiron 5000 and hear the 5000e is just as reasonable. Two caveats 1) No cardbus on -stable...use -current or get non-cardbus pc cards 2) Winmodem :( On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Doug Denault wrote: > The short answer is probably. I use a Dell Inspiron 7500 and two VERY old > Latitude LM's with no problems. But you should check out the archives for > the hardware mailing list, the handbook (URL below), and then post this > question to freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG if you still have questions. > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-hw.html > > A try-it solution would be to boot the CD (if the XPi can do that) or make > a floppy and see if sysinstall will recognize all the hardware. > > I had the most problems with X windows rather than FreeBSD. > > > > On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Craig, Rob wrote: > > > Afternoon, > > > > I would like to switch from Redhat Linux to FreeBSD. Linux is giving my > > grief. I have an old notebook I would like to install it on. Can you tell me > > if anyone has tested it or it runs fine? > > > > Dell Latitude XPi P133ST > > NeoMagic 2070 Graphics Card 1Mb > > Panasonic KXL-DL40 SCSI external CDROM (PCMCIA) > > 3Com 3CCFE575CD-D PCMCIA Network Card > > > > Notebooks are troublesome with anything but I am not sure if Free BSD has > > all the drivers? > > > > > 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
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