to all 1337 people i am a noob, but learning...

Very disapointed with redhat 9.0 on my dell inspiron laptop. it would apear that there are alot of problems with the hardware on the dell laptops
E.g. not starting eth0 on first boot.

speed of the new redhat? i ran all the updates that i needed , and still felt slugish..

i am now using mandrake 9.2 with no very few problems, altough i can't get my usb-ps/2 converter up and running yet it's only a matter of time..

i recomend drake for all new dell laptops , as it has detected
wirless
modem
lan
graphics (1400-1050)
firewire drive and usb2 hard drive.
even the sound card.



very

what model inspiron? 5100, 8500, etc... ? redhat 7.3 is running fine on my inspiron 8100.

got wireless pccard, dual 10/100 ethernet nic/56 K modem, video (nvidia geforce2go @1400x1050), firewire, usb, pcmcia, sound card, modular zip, modular floppy, modular dvdrom/cdrom, fixed cdrw/cdrom, blah blah blah working fine. the only thing i wish for is a bay manager for hotswapping those modular drives.

If you install & run too much stuff on your laptop, you'll have a slow machine. You must uninstall or de-activate what you don't need to have a quick machine.

Updates rarely change anything on speed, they're mostly for security/bugs.

I have a Dell Inspiron 3800. I installed Red Hat 8.0 last January, then took it off so I could change the partition size, and put Red Hat 9.0 on. It works fine for me. The only thing that doesn't work is the modem, but thats a crappy Winmodem. I have a scanner, printer, and digital camera all working fine connected to it. No problems with speed either.

I have RH9 currently running on a Dell Inspiron 8000 and a Dell Latitude C400, not really any big problems. I also have had RH9 on a Inspiron 8100. I've never felt bad about the speed of these machines with RH9. Very few problems with setup as well... Nothing that a little searching couldn't fix.

It's a dell inspiron 5100,

and i am now running mandrake 9.2 and it's nice
just feels alot better, although i know all about the arguments about drake not being compleatly open source , and redhat is . drake just has a better interface ..

at the end of the day , it isn't xp "home edition" which is what came pre installed, it lasted a whole 5 days..

good for you

Doakster,

I have just installed Fedora Core 1 in my Dell Latitude. I have a PCMCIA NIC. The network is trying to start the NIC before PCMCIA services is up. Did you have to do anything special with your setup? I'm guessing you probably have an integrated NIC, tho.

Hecresper,
I also have a PCMCIA NIC. On startup, it does try to connect to the red hat network to adjust the time before the pcmcia services are up, but thats the only thing that I've noticed. Once it loads into X, the internet works fine, and i can ping everyone on the network (I haven't bothered to set up samba yet though). I'm not sure what you mean by the network is trying to start the nic before PCMICA services are up. Is it during the boot sequence? Do you have any trouble using the NIC once X is loaded? If it works once the boot is comlete, I wouldn't (and didn't) worry about it. But thats just me.
You might want to do a google search with you NIC type, and include "Latitude" in the search. This might help you.
Sorry I couldn't be more help.

Matthew Doak

Thanks for your reply.

Yes, the OS is trying to start the NIC before PCMCIA services.

I'm thinking of doing a reinstall and see what happens.

I'll try Google/Linux again.

Thanks,
Hector

It should matter the order of the starting. I have a firewire drive with a lot of home directories, but the main filesystems from fstab are mounted before the firewire support is loaded, so I get a failed message. However, when I log in, all my files are there... I think that as part of loading PCMCIA it starts up the ethernet device, I wouldn't worry about it unless you can't access the network.

DOH!!! *hecresper slaps himself on the forehead*

well, it helps when the network cable is not hooked up to the hub's uplink port. LOL