On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 02:39:20PM +0100, Dieter Ebner wrote: > Who has recently bought a laptop and was able to install LINUX? > > Could you please tell me the exact type of your laptop + how you have solved > problems. > > I am particularly interested in laptops of the higher class:
Dell Latitude CPx-500 - now available with RedHat, I got win98 and installed debian (slink+ from VA/SGI/Oreilly CD, upgraded to potato) > > 6-15 GB HD 12 GB > 64-128 MB RAM 128 MB > USB, serial, parallel haven't tested > floppy works, external cable to use when DVD in media bay > DVD instead of CD I have DVD, but I'm not sure it's still available > 14" color yes, 1024x768 > external wheel mouse possible yes > sound Maestro, sound is good, but shutdown command may hang after disks are unmounted when the maestro module is loaded > modem and/or Ethernet included Xircom Realport Cardbus modem/ethernet bundled have to put card into promiscous mode to get it working sometimes, then go back to normal mode modem works fine with shared IRQ defined in kernel config Xircom Realport PCMCIA (different card) ethernet works fine > > --- > Dr. Dieter Ebner, Physics Department, University of Konstanz, > (My UNI-internal box: M678), > D-78457 KONSTANZ (Germany) > (no street-name or local box number required) > Tel: +49/7531/88-3785, Fax: +49/7531/88-3195 > e-mail (MIME accepted): [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www: http://kaluza.physik.uni-konstanz.de/LT/DieterEbner.html > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
