From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 6 23:26:17 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1598F16A533; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 23:26:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86C3A43D54; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 23:26:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id BC7698566C; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 09:56:07 +1030 (CST) Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 09:56:07 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: John Birrell Message-ID: <20050106232607.GI88329@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20050105062243.GO53273@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20050106224623.GA55403@freebsd3.cimlogic.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="9s922KAXlWjPfK/Q" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050106224623.GA55403@freebsd3.cimlogic.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: FreeBSD Questions cc: FreeBSD mobile Mailing List Subject: Re: Experience with Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 23:26:17 -0000 --9s922KAXlWjPfK/Q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --9s922KAXlWjPfK/Q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB3ckPIubykFB6QiMRAhhTAKCtgBcGV09OGfLYC0wSyz/No5osOACgjYdB JGNdGpQBtXlHPys60HSKWiw= =DYs1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --9s922KAXlWjPfK/Q--