[PLUG] Inspiron 2650 - Good or Bad?

Colin Kuskie ckuskie at dalsemi.com
Tue Dec 3 19:28:47 UTC 2002


On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 11:22:52AM -0800, AthlonRob wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 11:15, Colin Kuskie wrote:
> 
> > Since there's an onboard NIC, you probably aren't too concerned
> > about the PCMCIA bridge, but it's worth checking into just in case.
> > 
> > You never know when you'll get the itch to go wireless.
> 
> I just found a great page, via a groups.google.com search to an article
> that mentions a mailing list that contains a link to the page.  :-)
> 
> http://www.angelfire.com/linux/chowells/
> 
> I'm relatively certain that PCMCIA compatability issues are rare... and
> if there were any with this model, a google search on it would have
> turned them up.  This guy had one problem with it, but has a fix for it
> (he replaced the internal modem - I don't use modems, they suck).  :-)

They suck, but they'll let you check your email when you go home :)

PCMCIA problems are usually chipset dependent.  Another good page to
check is pcmcia-cs project page on sourceforge:

http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net

Colin




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