On Saturday 31 July 2004 13:13, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 12:59:43 -0500
Richard Atcheson
wrote: I found many BAD stories about Sony, Gateway, Dell, Compaq and HP to name a few. Caveat Emptor!
While working at Compaq (actually the Alpha group not the PC people), I was helping a friend with his laptop. We could not get Linux to recognize the NIC. I spoke to the technical product managers as well as the guys at Conexant (The chip mfr) and Dave Becker. Essentially, Conexant told me to go to hell as they did not have the time to write a Linux driver or to give the info to Dave. My neighbor wanted me to install SuSE on his Compaq box ...no dice. Coudn't even get a boot off installation media. Wonder what it is about Compaq.
My HP has a Conexant internal modem & that works great (when the SuSE driver pkg is installed). I think many of the companies must guard their driver info closely. Wish more would be forthcoming for Linux. -- ...CH "The more they over-think the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain." Scotty