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From: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net>
To: Doug Denault <doug@safeport.com>
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Subject: Re: !! Does FreeBSD run on a Dell Notebook !!
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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?
> >  
> 
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