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Re: A Laptop where all hardware is perfectly supported



"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss@iguanasuicide.net> writes:

> In <[🔎] lyk51l57jw.fsf@gfn.org>, Scott Gifford wrote:
>>"Todd A. Jacobs" <nospam@codegnome.org> writes:
>>> Dell purportedly sells a netbook with Ubuntu on it, but I haven't tried
>>> it myself.
>>
>>I have a Dell Inspiron E1505 that came with Ubuntu pre-installed, and
>>it works quite well.  The only thing that has never worked right is
>>the modem.
>
> Oh right, I never used the modem so it never concerned me.  IIRC, There are 
> free drivers for the modem, but they will only connect at 14.4Kbps.  ISTR 
> that Dell makes available a .deb (that is not freely redistributable, so not 
> appropriate for non-free) on their drivers website that will let the modem 
> run at the full 56Kbps.

They do, and I've installed it, but it's never worked reliably for me.

----Scott.


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