Need suggestions for me Dell 600m
I got a dell 600m over 2 weeks ago, and Ive just been having a ridiculous amount of problems with it. Right when I got it, I installed slackware 9.1. It worked ok, but I had no sound. I then upgraded to kernel 2.6.7, and the sound worked, but then my network card didnt. Then I began to try other distros... mandrake 10, gentoo 2004.1, suse 9.1, fedora core 2, and eventually slackware 10. Currently, I have reinstalled slackware 10 about 15-20 times trying to get it to work. Upon a clean installation, various commands that should be working simply do not work. My lsmod command doesnt work, neither does my modprobe command. If I try to upgrade my kernel to 2.6.7, even more problems arise. Im getting pretty frustrated with this whole thing, and I am getting close to just reinstalling Windows XP on it.
My question to all of you is - to anyone here who happens to have a Dell 600m with linux on it - what are you running on it, and how did you get it working? Im willing to, at this point, use any distro of linux at all, as long as it will work. All I want is a laptop with sound, a working ethernet card, and a working wireless card. Beyond that I think I can handle it, but so far everything I have tried has resulted in only one of the previous working at any given time.
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