Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 20:29:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: Andrew Swift <alswift@worldnet.att.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: Re: [two new Dell laptops] Message-ID: <20020411202521.K76809-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> In-Reply-To: <000801c1e1b6$fc3ae460$d2e15d0c@computer>
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On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Andrew Swift wrote: > Hello. I recently purchased two new laptops from Dell. One is called the Smartstep 100N and the other is a Inspiron 2600. I can't seem to find anything online about either of these working with freeBSD. I know that freeBSD should work with the CPU(intel Celeron and 1.0gig pentium 3) and motherboards, but I am a bit worried that there will not be drivers for the sound, video, and drives(CD-ROM and Floppy). Do you know of where i can find these drivers? www.freebsd.org/releases/4.5R/hardware.html www.google.com www.google.com/grphp?hl=en (newsgroups) The best advice would be just go ahead and install FreeBSD; along the way, the /stand/sysinstall application will report to you before continuing which PnP devices it successfully "pinged" or you can just type "dmesg -a" once FreeBSD is installed. Let us know how it goes *grin* hopefully simply and problem-free. -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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