[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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