On 27/11/06, Charles Tuckey <charles@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have an Inspiron 9400. So far I have the wireless card, a Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI card, working and the ATI X1400 Mobility graphics card working. I had to use ndiswrapper for the wireless card but that doesn't seem to cause any problems. I have to use the fglrx driver from ATI for the graphics card. This is a minor annoyance because it doesn't support compviz. Also, the livna package didn't install the driver properly and I had to manually add in some links. If I did it again, I would try to get an Nvidia card. Note that you may or may not get the same hardware if you buy an Inspiron. You have to specifically request certain hardware. I used Dell's chat function to talk to an agent who walked me through the whole process. He was able to supply me with hardware that wasn't available to choose on their web site. charlie
That's great to know- thanks. I'll chat with the rep and see what we can do. Any other hardware recommendations would be most appreciated, so that I can pass them on to the rep. Dell it will be. Maybe tomorrow. Dotan Cohen http://dotancohen.com/ http://song-lirics.com/
