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08-28-2006
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100% of reviewers
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$3,080.00
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9.0
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Description:
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Alienware Area-51m.
P4 2.8ghz
15.4 LCD monitor
Smart Card Reader
DVD-Burner
1 GB of RAM
WLAN card doesn't work yet, monitor, cd-burner, graphics card, keyboard, mouse, network card all work fine. using Knoppix 3.3
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Keywords:
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alienware, area-51, laptop, gaming
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/sbin/lspci output:
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00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS 645xx (rev 51)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0003
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513 (rev 14)
00:02.3 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] FireWire Controller
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
00:02.6 Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Intel 537 [56k Winmodem] (rev a0)
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller (rev a0)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
00:09.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc.: Unknown device 7114 (rev 20)
00:09.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc.: Unknown device 7114 (rev 20)
00:09.2 System peripheral: O2 Micro, Inc.: Unknown device 7110
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 (rev 10)
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Unknown device 168c:0013 (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4e50
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06-28-2006, 12:06 AM
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#1
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Registered: Jun 2005
Distribution: SimplyMEPIS
Posts: 27
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.10 - 2.6.15
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Distribution:
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Mepis
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I have virtually the same laptop, probably about 6 months newer. I had difficulty getting my WLAN card to work as well. I determined that it uses an Atheros-based chipset, which apparently most distros were not including support for in their kernels. MEPIS did, and at the time (early 2005) it was the only distro I found that did. Hence, I use MEPIS.
I would note that I have recently tried an Ubuntu Dapper LiveCD, and Dapper supports my card. For those of you who may have this laptop and are having trouble getting the wireless card working, search for "madwifi" and you'll find some pages on how to get the module working on your computer. Or, just switch to MEPIS/Ubuntu. ;)
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08-28-2006, 08:28 AM
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#2
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Registered: Sep 2003
Distribution: SuSe 8.2
Posts: 3
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $3,080.00 | Rating: 8
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Kernel (uname -r):
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Distribution:
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Red Hat Fedora Core 4/5, SuSe 10.1 OSS
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I purchased this in 2003, it has been running steady since then and last year loaded RH Fedora Core 4 and 5 on it and it worked great. I recently loaded SuSe 10.1 OSS and it works fine. However when connecting to my KVM swithced monitor, ViewSonic VX910 I can't get X to display properly.
Desktop is way to large no matter which resolution I choose.
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