Any success stories with Dell Inspiron 4100?
Greg Lehey
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking at buying a Dell Inspiron 4100 laptop soon and I was
> wondering if anyone had any success or problem stories with them.
I don't know about the 4100, but other members of the Inspiron family
tend to work pretty well.
Greg
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Benno Rice
> On Monday, 26 November 2001 at 11:50:39 +1100, Benno Rice wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm looking at buying a Dell Inspiron 4100 laptop soon and I was
> > wondering if anyone had any success or problem stories with them.
>
> I don't know about the 4100, but other members of the Inspiron family
> tend to work pretty well.
Yeah, that's why I was looking at Dells to begin with. The only major
difference I can see with this unit is that it uses Intel's 830MP chipset
which appears to be fairly new.
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Daniel O'Connor
On 26-Nov-2001 Greg Lehey wrote:
> I don't know about the 4100, but other members of the Inspiron family
> tend to work pretty well.
Hmm.. I have access to an i2500 and it hangs on boot with FreeBSD 4.4 (in
probe).
I forget exactly where, but I should be getting around to filling a bug report
sometime soon about it :)
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Andrew Reid
> Hmm.. I have access to an i2500 and it hangs on boot with FreeBSD 4.4 (in
> probe).
> I forget exactly where, but I should be getting around to filling a bug report
> sometime soon about it :)
I had similar problems on with my NEC Versa LX. It'd hang for about 30
seconds when probing the ata devices. Jarrod Sayers once told me why
it was doing this, but I've since lost the e-mail.
Does the i2500 hang indefinately? Mine'd spring back into life after
the 30 seconds, but it was quite annoying.
It's interesting that niether Jarrod's or my Toshiba laptops have had
those problems though.
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Mike Smith
> On 26-Nov-2001 Greg Lehey wrote:
> > I don't know about the 4100, but other members of the Inspiron family
> > tend to work pretty well.
>
> Hmm.. I have access to an i2500 and it hangs on boot with FreeBSD 4.4 (in
> probe).
> I forget exactly where, but I should be getting around to filling a bug repor
> t
> sometime soon about it :)
You could just try fixing it and submitting a patch... 8)
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Greg Lehey
Fascist wrap.
On Sunday, 25 November 2001 at 19:02:01 -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
>>
>> On 26-Nov-2001 Greg Lehey wrote:
>>> I don't know about the 4100, but other members of the Inspiron family
>>> tend to work pretty well.
>>
>> Hmm.. I have access to an i2500 and it hangs on boot with FreeBSD
>> 4.4 (in probe). I forget exactly where, but I should be getting
>> around to filling a bug report sometime soon about it :)
>
> You could just try fixing it and submitting a patch... 8)
First you need to understand what it's doing.
Greg
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Brian T.Schellenberger
> On 26-Nov-2001 Greg Lehey wrote:
> > I don't know about the 4100, but other members of the Inspiron family
> > tend to work pretty well.
>
> Hmm.. I have access to an i2500 and it hangs on boot with FreeBSD 4.4 (in
> probe).
> I forget exactly where, but I should be getting around to filling a bug
> report sometime soon about it :)
Does it ever recover? This happened to a friend of mine with an i8000
(though it never happens with mine), but only *some* of the time. He built a
minimal kernel (that is, one that only includes hardware that he actually
has) (I can send you mine if you want as a starting place; it should be
pretty close) and now all is fine as it's only probing for devices that are
actually present..
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Daniel O'Connor
On 26-Nov-2001 Andrew Reid wrote:
> I had similar problems on with my NEC Versa LX. It'd hang for about 30
> seconds when probing the ata devices. Jarrod Sayers once told me why
> it was doing this, but I've since lost the e-mail.
>
> Does the i2500 hang indefinately? Mine'd spring back into life after
> the 30 seconds, but it was quite annoying.
Nope, hangs 'forever' (I didn't wait that long).
> It's interesting that niether Jarrod's or my Toshiba laptops have had
> those problems though.
I haven't had a problem with the Inpsiron 8000.
The kernel starts booting and hangs after printing..
...
ata1: ...
uhci0: ...
usb0:...
uhub0: ...
pci0: ... vendor=0x8086 dev=0x2443
uhci1: ...
usb1: ...
uhub1: ...
pci0: ... vendor=0x8086 dev=0x2445
The HD/FDD (the same light is for both) light stays on, I couldn't hit
ctrl-alt-bspace (is the 4.4 kern.flp kernel built with DDB?) or ctrl-alt-delete.
Had to hold the power button down for ~4 seconds.
There are no PnP OS type options in the BIOS.
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Jon Parise
> > Does the i2500 hang indefinately? Mine'd spring back into life after
> > the 30 seconds, but it was quite annoying.
>
> Nope, hangs 'forever' (I didn't wait that long).
>
> > It's interesting that niether Jarrod's or my Toshiba laptops have had
> > those problems though.
>
> I haven't had a problem with the Inpsiron 8000.
>
> The kernel starts booting and hangs after printing..
>
> ...
> ata1: ...
> uhci0: ...
> usb0:...
> uhub0: ...
> pci0: ... vendor=0x8086 dev=0x2443
> uhci1: ...
> usb1: ...
> uhub1: ...
> pci0: ... vendor=0x8086 dev=0x2445
>
> The HD/FDD (the same light is for both) light stays on, I couldn't hit
> ctrl-alt-bspace (is the 4.4 kern.flp kernel built with DDB?) or ctrl-alt-delete.
>
> Had to hold the power button down for ~4 seconds.
>
> There are no PnP OS type options in the BIOS.
I get the same thing here with my Toshiba Satellite 3005-S304. I
haven't been able to do much investigating being this machine
lacks a standard serial port (although someone mentioned I might
be able to use the IR port, instead; haven't had a chance to try
that yet, though).
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Daniel O'Connor
On 27-Nov-2001 Jon Parise wrote:
> I get the same thing here with my Toshiba Satellite 3005-S304. I
> haven't been able to do much investigating being this machine
> lacks a standard serial port (although someone mentioned I might
> be able to use the IR port, instead; haven't had a chance to try
> that yet, though).
This one does have a normal serial port.
I couldn't be bothered building a debug kernel and trying to get it on a floppy
etc.. at the moment.
However if someone has one lying around.. :)
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