From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 1 22:12: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freeside.fc.net (freeside.fc.net [207.170.70.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F8DC37B857 for ; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 22:11:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdunham@freeside.fc.net) Received: (from jdunham@localhost) by freeside.fc.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id AAA21813; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 00:11:45 -0500 (CDT) From: Jerry Dunham Message-Id: <200007020511.AAA21813@freeside.fc.net> Subject: Re: dell inspiron 3500 In-Reply-To: <395E9740.5EC5FBD1@home.com> from Lawrence Sica at "Jul 1, 2000 06:13:36 pm" To: lsica1@home.com (Lawrence Sica) Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 00:11:45 -0500 (CDT) Cc: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey), bri@sonicboom.org (Brian), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Lawrence Sica babbled: > Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 18:13:36 -0700 > Greg Lehey wrote: > > > On Friday, 30 June 2000 at 12:16:53 -0700, Brian wrote: > >> > >> Anyone tried bsd or linux with the above laptop. > > > > (reference: Dell Inspiron 3500). > > > > I'm sure they have. I'm using a 7500, and so are a number of other > > people. > > > >> If you were successful, which versions? > > > > Of the 3500? Is there more than version? > > im using a 3000 with much success The 3000 isn't very closely related to the 3500, in spite of having been produced in the same factory. It's also not very closely related to the 7500. Success with one does not guarantee success with another. Sorry. The only closely related models in the Inspiron line are the 3000/3200 and the 7000/7500. The 3700 isn't even designed or built on the same side of the world as the rest, but is instead related to some of the Latitude CP series (CPt, CPx). Sorry if that's a bit confusing. -- Jerry Dunham FreeBSD http://www.dunham.org jdunham@fc.net jerry@dunham.org (512)335-0674 (H) E Pluribus Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message