Will Hill wrote: > If Mepis won't do it, I'd rip the thing out and use a PC card that does work. > > Crappy hardware is just not worth the time. > > Mepis managed to work the last Dell I played with, but I got rid of it > because > the screen acted funny the second time I actually carried it around. Other > students have had this screen problem too. You don't want to know what kinds > of problems my professor has with his older Dell, blah. > > I'm not sure I like subcards and mini PCI. While the convenience is great, > my > T23 has not been as reliable as any previous thinkpad. I'm on my fourth one > now since Christmas. The first one worked for about a month. The second and > third one had problems overnight and flaked daily. Other factors might be at > work, but I finally understand why some people think of them as Stinkpads. > > On that note, the people at Computer Exchange deserve some praise. While the > laptop has sucked, the service has been very good. They have a pile of them > and just let me swap out the hard drive when I explained that power > management did not work or showed them a black no post screen. The one I'm > on has been up for a week now. If it starts flaking out every day before the > end of my 90 days, I'm sure they will give me my money back without question. > > I ask a lot from my laptop and I'm glad the people at Computer Exchange > understand and support that. > > One day, I'll make a little slide show of the two boxes I've made to move > around my laptops. For the 600, I used a pizza box, blue foam insulation, > batting, bubble wrap and duct tape. That worked well for a year an a half > and the 600 still works like a champ. When the T23 gave me problems, I > improved the design to eliminate flex by using masonite and I glued it all > together with silicone caulking. Now only the edge is held in place and > there's a quarter inch airgap top and bottom. > > On Thursday 09 March 2006 09:41 pm, Mathew Branyon wrote: > > >> Shortening the story a bit, I have the dell wireless 1370, which uses >> the broadcom 4318 chipset. Ndiswrapper isn't working, and neither are >> the bcm43xx drivers (they are still experimental btw). >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > So far, everything works with ubuntu. I updated to dapper (testing) for the wireless support, but no dice. The routes I have a tried are as far as I can tell, distro non-specific.
I already have windows installed in my free version of vmware (they are giving it away now). I might post on that later. But yea, thats just me being stubborn.
