Re: About a laptop
In your message of: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 22:06:19 EDT, you write:
>On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 09:38:31AM -0700, Lucho Debianero wrote:
>| Im planning to buy a dell inspiron new 8100, anybody
>| knows if there is any problem with woody specially
>| with the internal-pci modem and ethernet?
>
>Do you have the model number? That usually helps when researching
>hardware compatibility.
The internal modem will probably work if it is based on the
Lucent/Agere chipset. Look at http://www.heby.de/ltmodem for the
drivers. The builtin ethernet will almost definately work, regardless
of what type it is. I understand it is difficult to find out exactly
which modem/ethernet card Dell is using at any particular time. Once
you have the laptop, lspci should tell you what hardware it contains.
>As I was looking up info on the suspend-to-disk feature I found some
I got suspend to disk working by setting up a partition with lphdisk
from http://www.procyon.com/~pda/lphdisk/. Then pressing fn-a will
suspend to disk. I found this to be a nearly worthless feature
though. Writing out a 384MB+ memory image takes a several minutes,
and reading it back in takes much longer than booting from scratch.
Even with the normal suspend, I have left my laptop asleep for 24
hours and still only used less than 1/3 of one battery.
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