I'm looking for a dealer that sells decent laptops made for linux boxes...any suggestions?
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I'm looking for a dealer that sells decent laptops made for linux boxes...any suggestions?
IBM or Gateway have some good *nix packages.
I agree about the IBM boxes....afterall they make the e-servers with *NIX. Also, Dell laptops are very compatible with Linux.
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.
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
I have the answer. KILL Linux and buy a real OS like free BSD. :)
Boy...aren't we the little gem of the day Quad?:cuss:
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.
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Originally posted by hogfly
Boy...aren't we the little gem of the day Quad?:cuss:
**** I sparkle like the hope diamond. :)
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
I had no problems loading Linux (RH 7.1) on a Tecra 8100. It picked up all of the hardware on initial install.
thx for all of the input guys...much appreciated!