laptop linux box

[cF_nM]

I'm looking for a dealer that sells decent laptops made for linux boxes...any suggestions?

[Quad]

IBM or Gateway have some good *nix packages.

[hogfly]

I agree about the IBM boxes....afterall they make the e-servers with *NIX. Also, Dell laptops are very compatible with Linux.

[FlashOveride]

I have heard that linux has a hard time with the modem/nic card combo. It also will have a problem with the mouse. I installed my linux on a gateway and I have had to do a lot just to get my cd rom and floppy to mount. I am still having trouble with my modem. I think that my seperate nic card is causing conflicts with my internal modem. Just some things to research on.

[Neophyte]

Your cd rom is going to be tricky. What I ended up doing was to place a mount and open routine in /usr/local/bin/cd. This solved my problem rather nicely. It isn't hard to do...go to the /dev directory associated with your cd rom. do some playing and remounting ... when you find the right combination... copy the procedure into a shell script called cdopen or some such thing and away you go. I am in the process of rewriting my script in C and i will post it later.

As for other hardware problems...I won't tell you all the answers but there is a place you can go to get them. The hardware configuration and compatability link at http://www.redhat.com

[Quad]

I have the answer. KILL Linux and buy a real OS like free BSD. :)

[hogfly]

Boy...aren't we the little gem of the day Quad?:cuss:

[wuming]

I have a compaq m700 and m300 and they are both running Redhat 7.1. The only thing I suggest, as with most laptops not made for *NIX operating systems is to replace the modem with a non-winmodem. Everything else on these two comps works great. I just had to replace the modem becasue they would only work under Windows. You can get a good 700MHZ for pretty cheap on EBAY also as these are "last-weeks" models.

[Quad]

Originally posted by hogfly
Boy...aren't we the little gem of the day Quad?:cuss:


Shit I sparkle like the hope diamond. :)

[Jaxn]

www.emperorlinux.com sells laptops preconfigured with linux.

I have Slack 8 running on a Toshiba 2140xcds Satelitte laptop. Winmodem is the only problem., and since I have a pcmcia nic and 56k it is a non-issue.

Jaxn

[BOFH]

I had no problems loading Linux (RH 7.1) on a Tecra 8100. It picked up all of the hardware on initial install.

[cF_nM]

thx for all of the input guys...much appreciated!