Hi Eric, I run CentOS 4 (a RHEL 4 derivative) on my Inspiron 8600 (essentially an Inspiron 8500 with a Pentium M instead of a Pentium 4). Both Inspirons have the Broadcom 4400 10/100 NIC (driver included in the stock kernel). There were a few different mini-pci wireless cards that shipped with both Inspirons. Initially, I had a Dell Truemobile <somenumber> mini-pci. At the time, the ndiswrapper/linuxant driver was the only way to get it to work. I soon abondoned that Dell card for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG. You shouldn't have much trouble getting that to work. If I had a chance to do it again, I would get a card with an Atheros chipset (supported by the madwifi driver). If you have a Dell card and just want to make it work see the following link: http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/
Best, Mike On 7/7/06, Eric H Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm curious if anyone is using RHEL (or similar) on a Dell Inspiron 8500 (or similar). I remember putting SuSE on this box a few years ago and had a considerable amount of trouble getting it to recognize the NICs (hardware and wireless). I'm planning on taking the RHCE class this Fall at ECU and will be out of town for the beginning so I'll definitely need RHEL on my laptop. Any words of wisdom for getting the NICs to work (Dell was no help last time). Thanks! Eric -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFErl9nQ6BPgKVM2YgRAnbwAJ9BuZdylukAwUFWUkgk3iW49iVJcACfY1ZP M54wnEhOpi3ESC8guLkMExI= =Y08c -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
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