From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 11 17:29:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A89037B419 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 17:29:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C455328DE3; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 20:29:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 20:29:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: Andrew Swift Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: [two new Dell laptops] In-Reply-To: <000801c1e1b6$fc3ae460$d2e15d0c@computer> Message-ID: <20020411202521.K76809-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Andrew Swift wrote: > Hello. I recently purchased two new laptops from Dell. One is called the Smartstep 100N and the other is a Inspiron 2600. I can't seem to find anything online about either of these working with freeBSD. I know that freeBSD should work with the CPU(intel Celeron and 1.0gig pentium 3) and motherboards, but I am a bit worried that there will not be drivers for the sound, video, and drives(CD-ROM and Floppy). Do you know of where i can find these drivers? www.freebsd.org/releases/4.5R/hardware.html www.google.com www.google.com/grphp?hl=en (newsgroups) The best advice would be just go ahead and install FreeBSD; along the way, the /stand/sysinstall application will report to you before continuing which PnP devices it successfully "pinged" or you can just type "dmesg -a" once FreeBSD is installed. Let us know how it goes *grin* hopefully simply and problem-free. -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message