| From: Constantine 'Gus' Fantanas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Last year I read on | this board that the BIOS will accept only a few hard drives
Can you give a reference? My impression was that any hard drive of the right physical size should work. | (or other | peripherals for that matter; it will reject all micro-PCI wifi cards other | than the hated Broadcom, to bring up another example). That is my understanding. I agree that this is quite annoying. Mostly because there is no native LINUX driver for the Broadcom. The excuse given (from my imperfect memory) is that the FCC approval was for the notebook with that card and that the approval might not cover the notebook with a different card. Not really sensible to me, but regulators are not often sensible, so it might be true. Another one that annoys me right now is that the BIOS will not support other CPUs. A 754-pin Turion ought to significantly reduce the power draw but we cannot use one. http://www.overclockers.com/tips00781/ | Let me say this: Had I known of all these dirty tricks HP has been pulling | off, I would have NEVER bought this laptop! I'm annoyed by a small set of stupidities: - BIOS stupidities listed above - I suspect that the BIOS ACPI is faulty, but I cannot prove it. - lack of public specs for + Broadcom wireless chip + flash memory reader + nVidia graphics chips (no, a proprietary LINUX driver is not good enough) This isn't worse than average for notebooks. On the other hand, Intel does provide open source LINUX drivers for their wireless chips and video chips. I found that LINUX supported more of a Dell Inspiron 6000 than it supports on our notebooks. _______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/
