Re: Dell Latitude L400

From: Alan Gauton (agauton-remove_at_postmaster.co.uk)
Date: 08/22/05

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    Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 09:51:05 +0100

    In article <t5fOe.35$Vt4.17@newsfe1-gui.ntli.net>, james@the-computer-
    shop.co.uk says...
    > I picked up this pizza-sized subnote a couple of days ago, just because
    > I love my subnotes. I've one tiny problem with it.
    > It has no OS.
    > Has anyone any experience in installing Linux to a notebook with no
    > removable storage whatsoever? Failing that, any experienced
    > recommendation for a distro which I can lob on the HD via another
    > machine? FWIW, I've had a go with another drive with an existing
    > Knoppix/Debian installation, which puked when it came to starting X.
    > I'm thinking Zipslack to get me started, but not having used that for a
    > few years, I'm not sure what the usb support would be like so I'd be
    > able to juice it up a bit with say, SuSE or whatever.
    >
    > Specs:
    > 700MHz PIIIm
    > 256MB RAM
    > 10GB HD
    > Texas Instruments TI1410 CardBus controller
    > Crystal CS4281 + CS4297A (AC97 CODEC) sound controller
    > ATI Mobility M AGP 4MB graphics
    > Lucent 1646 V90 modem (not too bothered about this)
    > 3Com 3C920 10/100-BASETX PCI bus master Ethernet
    > Synaptics touchpad
    > 1x chipset USB port
    > 1x chipset IRDA port

    Certainly SUSE 9.3 didn't work on mine, and 9.1 Personal gave problems
    with the screen - complained about monitor not returning x and y values.
    Strangely the Live version seemed to work ok.

    I've got Ubuntu on mine at the moment, and it seems relatively happy at
    the moment. I'm just trying to get an el-cheapo wireless card to work in
    ad-hoc mode at the moment.

    FWIW, are you sure about the IRDA port? I can't see one on my L400... 

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