From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 11 17:32:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.wi.rr.com (fe3.rdc-kc.rr.com [24.94.163.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FD2337B417 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 17:32:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wi.rr.com ([65.31.97.147]) by mail3.wi.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.537.53); Thu, 11 Apr 2002 19:31:49 -0500 Message-ID: <3CB62B17.33578578@wi.rr.com> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 19:32:23 -0500 From: boggy Reply-To: nl3481@wi.rr.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-NSCPCD (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Swift , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DELL laptops References: <000801c1e1b6$fc3ae460$d2e15d0c@computer> <3CB62A47.19CCDCFC@wi.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 boggy wrote: > 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? > > Andrew, as far as worrying if FreeBSD will work on your laptop(s), > DON'T! Just try it. Load it with the most recent, STALE BSD, 4.5-STABLE > and give it a whirl. About getting your peripherals working, what kind > of devices do you have? modem, NIC, sound, etc. Once you get FreeBSD > loaded onto the laptop, it's easier to twek from there. You can read the > LINT file to guide you along for your device configs. > > Hope this helps. > Nick > > 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