Fwd: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop?

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

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On Wednesday,  5 January 2005 at 13:24:10 -0500, julesg at newebmail.com wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 21:51:05 +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
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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?
>
> 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.

OK, so the "win" modem doesn't work.  That's the case with most
laptops, it seems.  Do you have any other problems?

> 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.

Hopefully you would have seen more useful replies than the ones I've
seen so far :-(

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

I can't see any error here.  I don't intend to use the modem.

Greg
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