Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 14:52:18 +0000 From: Paul Breslaw <paul@breslaw.co.uk> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Dell Dimension 2400 Message-ID: <200311281452.18691.paul@breslaw.co.uk>
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I've just bought myself a nice spanking new Dimension 2400. My first tas= k was to get RedHat Linux 8.0 running on it. My second task will be to get= =20 FreeBSD 4.9 also running on it. Getting Linux going was a pain. The X server didn't work, nor did the Ethernet board. I managed to solve both of these problems with a lot of searching on the Web. =20 The X server problem was solved with a fix to XFree86 offered by Intel. I suspect this fix is portable, so will also work with FreeBSD. The Ethernet problem was solved by my discovering that the board is made by Broadcom (BCM4400) who also offer a Linux device driver, but not one for FreeBSD. What options do I have - if any? Thanks for any advice. Regards Paul Breslaw. =20
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