Re: Purchasing new notebook.. Dell Inspiron 2600 work okay with RELENG_4?
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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: [email protected] Fax: (021) 6831104 > http://www.4dds.co.za [email protected] > PGP Key: http://people.4dds.co.za/~jus/jus-pgp-key.txt > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > > -- ------------------------------ ------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message