[TriLUG] RHEL on a Dell Inspiron 8500

John Broome jbroome at gmail.com
Fri Jul 7 10:05:36 EDT 2006


Sounds like you're putting together a pretty nice list of things to
make sure you know before taking the RHCE. :)


On 7/7/06, Eric H Christensen <kf4otn at ericsatcom.net> wrote:
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> Well, that is encouraging.  Now if I can just remember how to setup a
> dual-boot system...
>
> Ryan Leathers wrote:
> > I have run RH9 and Debian on mine with no NIC troubles that I can
> > recall.  I never tried to put RHEL on it.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 09:19 -0400, Eric H Christensen wrote:
> > I'm curious if anyone is using RHEL (or similar) on a Dell Inspiron 8500
> > (or similar).  I remember putting SuSE on this box a few years ago and
> > had a considerable amount of trouble getting it to recognize the NICs
> > (hardware and wireless).  I'm planning on taking the RHCE class this
> > Fall at ECU and will be out of town for the beginning so I'll definitely
> > need RHEL on my laptop.  Any words of wisdom for getting the NICs to
> > work (Dell was no help last time).
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Eric
> >>
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