In your message of: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 22:06:19 EDT, you write: >On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 09:38:31AM -0700, Lucho Debianero wrote: >| Im planning to buy a dell inspiron new 8100, anybody >| knows if there is any problem with woody specially >| with the internal-pci modem and ethernet? > >Do you have the model number? That usually helps when researching >hardware compatibility.
The internal modem will probably work if it is based on the Lucent/Agere chipset. Look at http://www.heby.de/ltmodem for the drivers. The builtin ethernet will almost definately work, regardless of what type it is. I understand it is difficult to find out exactly which modem/ethernet card Dell is using at any particular time. Once you have the laptop, lspci should tell you what hardware it contains. >As I was looking up info on the suspend-to-disk feature I found some I got suspend to disk working by setting up a partition with lphdisk from http://www.procyon.com/~pda/lphdisk/. Then pressing fn-a will suspend to disk. I found this to be a nearly worthless feature though. Writing out a 384MB+ memory image takes a several minutes, and reading it back in takes much longer than booting from scratch. Even with the normal suspend, I have left my laptop asleep for 24 hours and still only used less than 1/3 of one battery.
