On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 05:34 -0700, Mike DeMarco wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 05:10 -0700, Mike DeMarco > > wrote: > > > I need to rant a bit: > > > > > > I had ordered a new laptop and when it arrived I > > installed OpenSolaris b68. I was having many problems > > with the keyboard and the NIC on the box. The NIC > > driver had plumbed the interface and brought it up > > but I was unable to send any packets or receive. I > > susspected that there may be something wrong with the > > hardware but could not prove it. I had to install > > windoz and when the problems migrated there as well I > > called the vendor to report it as a hardware problem. > > I told the vendor that the NIC was not working > > properly on Solaris or Windows. The vendor started > > blaming the solaris install as the culprit and that I > > should completely wipe the harddrive and just install > > windoz. I did this out of discuss with the ignorance > > of the world towards solaris. I formated the whole > > harddrive > > > for windoz and installed XP. I was still having the > > problems and called the vendor. telling them that > > even if it had worked I did not buy this laptop to > > run Windoz and it was totally useless to me in this > > confiration. > > > > > > What the vendor said next set me ablaze. > > > > > > "WE NEVER ADVERTISED THE SYSTEM WOULD WORK WITH > > SOLARIS" > > > > > > I hate this. Why does the world have to use windoz? > > Why can we not buy a piece of hardware and put what > > we want on it without being harassed by the seller > > that it must have this software on it or we will not > > honor our warranty? > > > > Pissed off! > > Just out of curiosity - what was the brand - bit of a > > name and shame is > > in order. > > > > Matthew > > > > _______________________________________________ > > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > I did not want to mention brands because I have had this same problem with > every computer that I have bought.
Interesting, Toshiba and this HP I'm running right now have been the two best machines to run Solaris on. The only thing not supported on this is my webcam - its UVC compliant but requires a firmware to be uploaded which Solaris doesn't support. Matthew _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
