Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?

On Friday,  7 January 2005 at  9:46:23 +1100, John Birrell wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 04:52:43PM +1030, 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?
>
> I have an 1150 and it works great with RELENG_5 for me. I don't have the
> version with the internal wireless though. I use the bfe (Broadcom BCM4401)
> ethernet. No problems with that.

Thanks for the info.

> If you get one, go straight to Dell's support site and get the
> latest bios.  I had to do that before X would work. There have been
> a few bios updates and my 1150 was shipped with an out-dated bios
> which I thought lacked attention to detail by Dell when they build
> the machines to order in Malaysia.

Interesting.  I had a similar problem with my 5150 18 months ago (see
http://www.lemis.com/grog/diary-jul2003.html#25 for details).  Is this
what you saw?

> Once thing I really like about it is being able to set the bios to
> boot via the ethernet port. That makes net-booting FreeBSD for
> driver development a breeze.

That sounds useful, indeed.

Greg
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