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Re: [Plug] Your help needed
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I just installed RedHat 6.1 onto my Dell Inspiron 7000 with a Xircom
realport PCMCIA network card and X and net worked right away. Compared to
6.0, it was a breeze.
----- Original Message -----
From: Hugh Brock <hbrock@indigologic.com>
To: <plug@lists.nothinbut.net>
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 1999 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Plug] Your help needed
> "John A. Simkiss III" wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone purchase a NEW laptop recently which was 100% hardware
compatible
> > with Linux ? Feel free to reply on or off the list.
>
> Hi John.
>
> I *love* Thinkpads. I have had three (755CD, 760, and my current 560Z)
> that run Linux beautifully and are a pleasure to use besides.
>
> I bought the 560Z (ultra-light, 800x600 12.1 TFT, PII300, 6.1GHD, 128MB
> RAM) in April. Everything works great (including the Neomagic XFree86
> driver), although SuSE 6.1 was at that time the only distribution that
> would talk to my PCMCIA CD-ROM on installation, which is why I run SuSE
> instead of RedHat.
>
> So, a few glitches, but no major problems (except still no USB support
> in Linux, but that's on its way I think).
>
> Feel free to send private email with more questions.
>
> Take care,
> --Hugh
>
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