From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Aug 14 11:49:46 2002 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 280B437B400 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 11:49:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail49.fg.online.no (mail49-s.fg.online.no [148.122.161.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB0AA43E65 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 11:49:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsb@is.online.no) Received: from [192.168.123.150] (ti200710a080-1885.bb.online.no [80.212.199.93]) by mail49.fg.online.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA04705; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 20:49:19 +0200 (MET DST) Subject: Re: Purchasing new notebook.. Dell Inspiron 2600 work okay with RELENG_4? From: bsb Reply-To: bsb@is.online.no To: Justin Stanford Cc: mobile In-Reply-To: <20020814130426.A48934-100000@polsmoor.4dds.co.za> References: <20020814130426.A48934-100000@polsmoor.4dds.co.za> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.5 Date: 14 Aug 2002 20:50:05 +0200 Message-Id: <1029351006.227.12.camel@dnadust.online.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org hi. i have a inspiron 2600 and succeded installing 4.6 with X problems i encountered: -eisa from generic, otherwise it hangs -the graphic card intel i830m is not (yet) fully supported -the fan is wired. (there is a soft-patch you can use). the laptop gets v hot. but never (yet :) had problems because of it... otherwise it's a cool machine. good luck On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 13:11, Justin Stanford wrote: > Hi, > > I'm in the process of purchasing a new notebook. The one requirement I > have is that the machine be able to run FreeBSD and that the onboard > 10/100 NIC work. The machine that I am considering is a Dell Inspiron 2600 > (1.06GHz Celeron, 384mb RAM, DVD-ROM, 20gb, etc). > > Is there any reason to be advised against buying this machine, in terms of > compatability with FreeBSD? Is there a chance the DVD-ROM may fail to > operate as a normal CD-ROM in FreeBSD's eyes? I have searched around and > found little to no reference to the 2600 and FreeBSD (It appears to be a > relatively recent model) other than one person who had problems which were > solved by removing EISA from GENERIC. > > Many thanks in advance. > > Regards, > Justin > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Justin Stanford 4D Digital Security (Pty) Ltd. > Digital Security Consultant PO Box 2349, Clareinch, 7740, South Africa > Cell: (082) 7402741 Tel: (021) 6712342 > E-Mail: justin@4dds.co.za Fax: (021) 6831104 > http://www.4dds.co.za info@4dds.co.za > PGP Key: http://people.4dds.co.za/~jus/jus-pgp-key.txt > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > > -- ------------------------------ ------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message