Re: Dell Latitude D800 laptop information

2003-12-17 Thread Struan Donald
* at 16/12 20:02 + Conor Fitzpatrick said:
> Hi there, I'm a newbie to this list, so I apologise if I make any faux-pas.
> 
> I'm about to take delivery of a Dell D800 laptop, and Have heard from 
> various sources that both the broadcom 10/100/1000 ethernet controller 
> and 802.11a/b/g mini pci cards are not natively supported under debian 
> with the 2.4 kernel.

no experience of debian on them but 
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ certainly lets you use the wifi
under linux. 

Struan



Re: Dell Latitude D800 laptop information

2003-12-17 Thread Struan Donald
* at 16/12 20:02 + Conor Fitzpatrick said:
> Hi there, I'm a newbie to this list, so I apologise if I make any faux-pas.
> 
> I'm about to take delivery of a Dell D800 laptop, and Have heard from 
> various sources that both the broadcom 10/100/1000 ethernet controller 
> and 802.11a/b/g mini pci cards are not natively supported under debian 
> with the 2.4 kernel.

no experience of debian on them but 
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ certainly lets you use the wifi
under linux. 

Struan


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Re: Dell Latitude D800 laptop information

2003-12-17 Thread Pål Dahle
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 08:02:50PM +, Conor Fitzpatrick wrote:
> 
> I'm about to take delivery of a Dell D800 laptop, and Have heard from 
> various sources that both the broadcom 10/100/1000 ethernet controller 
> and 802.11a/b/g mini pci cards are not natively supported under debian 
> with the 2.4 kernel.

http://www.tuxmobil.org/dell.html have two entries for D800 + Debian

For the WLAN check out http://www.linuxant.com


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Re: Dell Latitude D800 laptop information

2003-12-17 Thread Pål Dahle
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 08:02:50PM +, Conor Fitzpatrick wrote:
> 
> I'm about to take delivery of a Dell D800 laptop, and Have heard from 
> various sources that both the broadcom 10/100/1000 ethernet controller 
> and 802.11a/b/g mini pci cards are not natively supported under debian 
> with the 2.4 kernel.

http://www.tuxmobil.org/dell.html have two entries for D800 + Debian

For the WLAN check out http://www.linuxant.com


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Re: Dell Latitude D800 laptop information

2003-12-17 Thread raven
I helped someone install debian on a D600.  We used an unofficial netinstall 
iso that included the tg3.o module for the gigabit ethernet.  I don't have the 
link sorry, you will need to google for it. 


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Re: Dell Latitude D800 laptop information

2003-12-16 Thread raven
I helped someone install debian on a D600.  We used an unofficial netinstall iso that 
included the tg3.o module for the gigabit ethernet.  I don't have the link sorry, you 
will need to google for it. 


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