[geeks] Solaris on x86 (was Fedora funky-ness...)

[Francois Dion]

My wife has a Satellite with slightly lower specs than yours. It's a 
nice machine for the money. Cant complain, but it's a bit on the loud side.

My IBM 770x was getting a bit slow as my main machine and if I had lots 
of $$ to burn, i'd probably be looking at an Athlon64 based laptop. But 
I didn't have to buy a new laptop this year as I got a new Lattitude 
D600 from $job. Runs Winslow 2000 and Solaris 9 12/03. No support for 
the integrated Dell WLAN 1300 in Solaris, but gigabit port is supported 
thru a driver I downloaded on the broadcom site. Works excellent as a 
jumpstart machine (as long as you have the media on DVD - as of 12/03 it 
looks like no boot image is on the CD variant).

Francois

Lionel Peterson wrote:

>>From: Francois Dion <fdion at atriumwindows.com>
>>Date: 2004/02/17 Tue PM 05:56:24 GMT
>>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>>Subject: [geeks] Solaris on x86 (was  Fedora funky-ness...)
>>
>>If you have one of these:
>>
>>    * Linksys Instant Wireless PC Card, Model WPC11
>>    * Netgear 802.11b Wireless PC Card, Model MA401
>>    * Orinoco PC Card Silver
>> 
>>Lynnsoft has a driver (altough it cost $):
>>http://www.lynnsoft.com/solaris.htm
>>    
>>
>
>That is GREAT NEWS! I will try this absolutely ASAP.
>
>Ouch - $100... Oh well, it is a noble effort, and should be rewarded... BTW, they include SPARC platform wireless options for Solaris 8, again $100...
>
>I will also try and run the Hardware Certification Suite from Sun on that laptop (it takes up to a week to complete!) and enter the results into Sun before I shed that laptop.
>
>I just got a new Linux laptop (to displace my Tecra 8000s), can't wait to get home and set it up (it's BLUE! ;^)... Actually, I got a Toshiba Satellite A35-S159 laptop (P4 Mobile 2.3 GHz, 512 Meg RAM, 60 Gig HD, 15" XGA TFT, DVD/CD-RW, and 802.11g built-in for $849 (after rebates). I want a quick, cheap laptop for linux/wireless around the house (with built-in wireless), and while the Tecra's are nice "old school" laptops, they "only have" 256 Meg RAM, and a PII is not considered "speedy" any more...
>
>Besides, it's BLUE! ;^)
>
>I was looking at ordering a laptop from Dell, but to buy their cheapest laptop (currently $699), then add RAM, up the HD, and get an 802.11 card, you are damn near $850, plus to get blue covers is an extra $39 :^(
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