Posts by bKT

I've found that the three of four laptops that I've put Linux on the Linksys cards worked without at hitch all three of the times. I attempted using a new SMC wireless card with Ubuntu on this same laptop, and it didn't catch. Once I got...

The notebook powers down and the battery indicator light stays on.

I'm thinking of buying one of those, how much did that end up running you, and where did you buy it from? eBay has a few Travelmates (new) for a lot less than the stores are selling them for (they probably fell off the truck). It looks...

Right now I'm running Damn Small Linux off the LiveCD and it seems to be working well.

Thanks. Yeah Ubuntu ran like a pig. Are there any specific suggestions for another Debian varient? I tend to like the ability to use Apt-get. I'm guessing that Fedora 5 is out of the quesiton? Even without KDE/Gnome? I'm not real...

I've also browsed through some of the topics on the system and it seems that it was one of Dell's worse lines of laptops. Unfortunately though, I'm not sure if its entitled to a exchange because on the bottom there is a nice red...

I've had these pair of old Gateway laptops (Pentium 2 300MHZ, 64MB RAM) and I am looking for the best Linux to throw on these things. A few months ago I installed Ubuntu on one of them, and it ran alright, but not too swell. I'm...

A customer brought this laptop in to us to fix because it would not boot. We were not told a diagnosis but after opening it up a bit and looking we figured that something was spilled on the keyboard (and apparently, awhile before the...

I aquired a Dell Inspiron 5150 from a friend that ended up buying a newer Dell, because this laptop stopped working on him. I got absolutely no description on what could have happened to it. I am suspecting that it is a dead power...