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]
