From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 5 11:19:08 2005 Return-Path: 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 677AE16A4CE; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:19:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hawk.dcu.ie (mail.dcu.ie [136.206.1.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F56743D55; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:19:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from svan@redbrick.dcu.ie) Received: from deathray.redbrick.dcu.ie (136.206.15.3) by hawk.dcu.ie (7.0.016) id 41108D190081EDA6; Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:19:06 +0000 Received: from carbon.redbrick.dcu.ie ([2001:770:107:15:206:5bff:fefc:fb70] ident=mail) by deathray.redbrick.dcu.ie with esmtp (Exim 4.31) id 1Cm9Ca-0001mq-Co; Wed, 05 Jan 2005 11:19:44 +0000 Received: from svan by carbon.redbrick.dcu.ie with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Cm9C8-0001jw-00; Wed, 05 Jan 2005 11:19:16 +0000 Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 11:19:16 +0000 From: Sarunas Vancevicius To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey Message-ID: <20050105111916.GA26897@carbon.redbrick.dcu.ie> References: <20050105062243.GO53273@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050105062243.GO53273@wantadilla.lemis.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: FreeBSD Questions cc: FreeBSD mobile Mailing List Subject: Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 11:19:08 -0000 On 16:52, Wed 05 Jan 05, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > I'm thinking of buying a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop. I have a number > of Dells, and on the whole I'm happy, but I've had "issues" before. > Can anybody who has one of these machines (1150 only, please) tell me > good or bad things about it? Have you been able to get the internal > wireless card to work? > > Greg Hey Greg, A college friend has one of these, I don't know much about it, except that he is running Fedora Core 3 and had no luck trying to get internal wireless card working, so he had to get a PCMCIA wireless card. If thats any helpful to you.