Fwd: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?

[julesg at newebmail.com]

A friendly FreeBSD'er in the Netherlands helped me get some perhiperals
running; and I did learn some things for my efforts; Conexnat(?), the
modem people, are beginning to be quite responsive to the Linux the
FreeBSD communities, and I expect they will begin to offer Linux drivers
for their modems -- but right now, the 1150 Winmodem (which I require)
only works with M$ OS's.  I purchased this, believing that I could make
things work with FreeBSD -- but not so.  I was replacing an old Tecra and
everything worked fine, with both Linux and BSD -- not so the 1150.

I made a serious mistake -- I should have come here first and asked "What
works best with FreeBSD" and now I pay for that mistake, because when I
boot up I have to look at a windoz desktop.  

So Greg, DON'T YOU MAKE THAT ERROR -- find something else to buy!

--jg


-----Original Message-----
From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at FreeBSD.org>
To: "julesg @ newebmail. com" <julesg at newebmail.com>
Cc: freebsd-mobile at FreeBSD.org
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 21:51:05 +1030
Subject: Re: Fwd: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?

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> On Wednesday,  5 January 2005 at  5:56:45 -0500, julesg at newebmail.com
> wrote:
> > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 16:52:43 +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?
> >
> > NO!
> 
> Can you be more specific?
> 
> > I own one, and can't make several services work under Fbsd 
> 
> Which ones?  What problems did you have?
> 
> Greg
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