Hi -
Thanks. We are buying them for sure!
Just one more model - Sony VAIO PCGF650, could someone comment on that
one? I couldn't find *any* linux-support review for that one on the net.
Thanks again,
Vinay.
Jeremy Katz wrote:
>
> On Thursday, November 30 2000, Vinay A. Mahadik said:
>
> > We are planning to buy a couple of Dell Inspiron 4000 notebooks. It
> > being a new model, we are somewhat worried about support issues with
> > Linux (RHL 6.2 or 7.0) - especially network support. We need to also use
> > the optional internal network card which makes three interfaces (along
> > with two PCMCIA cards).
>
> I recently got an Inspiron 4000 and am running Red Hat Linux 7.0 on it
> without any troubles whatsoever. The internal ethernet is supported by
> the standard 3c59x driver and PCMCIA has no problems either. So in a
> nutshell, you shouldn't have any problems.
>
> Also, just for info on the rest of the devices of the machine. The
> video chipset is supported in XFree 4.0.1 as shipped in Red Hat 7.0 but
> probably not in the 3.3.6 shipped with Red Hat 6.2. The sound chip
> works with a driver from http://www.zabbo.net/maestro3/ (still beta but
> it works for me and a lot of other people :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeremy
>
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