Solaris 8 on Dell Inspiron 7500

Although the model Dell Inspiron 7500 intel based is not on the HCL, still hoping there is a way out !!!
Please lemme know if there is a feasible way out...
thanks!
Man ! I wish had never bought the system in the first place !!!

dont think so..not for the 7500. post here if you get it working for the 7500.

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Dell Inspiron 7500

I need to install Solaris 8 on a Inspiron 7500 laptop. Is this possible? Without to many hacks/driver updates?

Hi
I think it posible to Install Solaris 8 on your laptop ,
but you will have so much problems
1. Net devices such as ethernet may not work
2. Sound card may no work but you can get driver .
(see hw comp list for solaris: sound section )
3. Warning : TFT screen can be damaged by Xserver settings, so better way, if not suported by SUN is to use XFree86, or accelerated X
4. On my laptop this OS don`t write partition boot well (instead FreeBSD unix, that work nice), so I boot with CD-ROM
5.In other Unix such as Linux or *BSD there is Serial Line support SLIP (internet over null-modem), so I not sure how it in solaris....
Have fun

Does anyone out there have any information about running LabVIEW 6i on a Windows 2000 Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop?

Good news, bad news. I will take any info I can get. I am having trouble getting LabVIEW to see an HP 8703 device. I used to have Win98 and LabVIEW 5.1 running on this machine without a problem until I tried to upgrade to 6i. The machine would not work correctly or recognize devices consistently.
Thanks for your help!

The problem you are seeing likely does not have to do with LabVIEW, but more likely with the GPIB drivers. If you did a full install of LabVIEW 6, it probably installed new drivers over the old ones and might have caused some problem. You aught to be able to test the 488.2 drivers and the device communication using MAX (Measurement and Automation Explorer) If have trouble communicating with your device in MAX, might want to consider completely uninstalling the drivers and reinstalling.

Solaris 8 & Keyboard Problem on DELL Inspiron Laptop

Hi all,
Trying to install Solaris 8 on Dell Inspiron 4000 laptop, but the keyboard gets stuck at the stage where I need to select the language. No response to keyboard and the machine just hangs. The keyboard works initially, I used the F2 key to continue to the next screen. Has anyone seen this before? Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks
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I'm experiencing this exact problem on my Dell Inspiron 4000 as well. When I trying to select the Language stage of the installation, my laptop responds with garble text, and then the laptop locks up. Please let me know if you have a resolution.
vinh
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Solaris 8 on Dell Inspiron 3500 ?

Hi!
Is there anyone who successfully installed Solaris 8 on a Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop? The problem is with the video card (NeoMagic) which is not automaticaly recognized by Solaris installer.
Thanks for any advices,
Claudiu

I am trying to install on a Dell Latitude laptop. I cant get very far though. Please see below:
I'm quite familiar with Solaris 8 and have done numerous installs
including dual boot on x86, and jumpstarts on Ultras.
I am trying to install x86 on a Dell laptop. No problems with setting up
the bios, and telling it to boot into the Solaris install menu. (from 1
of 2 cd)
My problem is this:
When I get to the language preference question, my keyboard mapping is
shot. I've tried numlock off and on, and used 3 different keyboards.
Laptop keyboard out of docking station, and two different keyboards
while the Dell is docked.
Funny thing is, the mapping is fine until the point where the install
program wants language preferences entered. I tried various keys and the
whole mapping of the keys on the board is off.
As I mentioned, in the earlier phase of the install program, when it
asks if you want Jumpstart, the mapping is fine. I did not have this
problem on my x86 install on my tower, (same keyboard tested as bad on
the Dell) and used the exact same cd's (1 of 2) that sun sent.
So I tried to configure Jumpstart to get around the mapping. Booted the
Dell bios to boot from the network using BOOTP, which is the core
protocol that Jumpstart uses. No go. Used the procedure from the Sun
Admin 2 class, it is proven to work on an Ultra environment. No go on
x86 though.
Any suggestions?
Thanks much,
Sam

Solaris 8 on intel(Dell Inspiron 4150)

I am trying to install Solaris 8 on my Laptop (Dell Inspiron 4150), but it is getting terminated stating "No dump device, continue to reboot".
Can anybody tell me if it is possible to install Solaris 8 or 9 on Dell Inspiron 4150.
How do I check the HCL?
Jitendra

http://laptops.solaris-x86.org lists a Dell Inspion 4100. I assume the
Inspiron 4100 and 4150 are build with similar hardware.
You should probably try to collect some information about the cause
of the kernel panic first, by booting with "kadb -v". Boot from the
"Software 1 of 2" CD, and at the "1 interactive or 2 custom jump start"
propmt, type
b kadb -v
The system will panic one again, but this time you can print a stack
backtrace, using the kadb "$c" command.
Report what error messages are printed now.
Does it panic due to a NULL pointer access, and is there a subroutine
"elxl_send" visible on the stack backtrace?
The entry in the laptop list indicates that you need a special version
of the "elxl" driver for the 3com network card. The standard Solaris 8 elxl
driver is known to panic the kernel with certain variants of the 3com
3c905 cards.
In this case you should try to install solaris with the NIC disabled in
the BIOS, install Solaris, install the updated elxl driver mentioned in thttp://laptops.solaris-x86.org and finally manually configure the NIC.

Problem facing installing Solaris 10 on Dell inspiron 6400.

Hi,
I am facing problem in installing Solaris 10 on my Dell inspiron 6400.
It is giving "cannot find driver for screen device /isa/motherboard@1,61" error.
Please help...
Thanks In Advance
Saurabh

Hi all,
I've also the same problem, I tried the 11/06 but after GRUB , it hangs. HereBelow the HCL.
No Solaris Driver
     No Solaris Driver
     Multimedia
     Intel Corporation
     82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller
No Solaris Driver
     No Solaris Driver
     Network
     Intel Corporation
     PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
Solaris 10 11/06
     Solaris 10 11/06
     Firewire
     Ricoh Co Ltd
     Unknown device
     hci1394
Note-1
     Note-1
     Network
     Broadcom Corporation
     BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX
     bfe
Solaris 10 11/06
     Solaris 10 11/06
     Video
     Intel Corporation
     Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller
     vgatext
Solaris 10 11/06
     Solaris 10 11/06
     Storage
     Intel Corporation
     82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller IDE
     pci-ide
Solaris 10 11/06
     Solaris 10 11/06
     USB
     Intel Corporation
     82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1
     uhci
Solaris 10 11/06
     Solaris 10 11/06
     USB
     Intel Corporation
     82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2
     uhci
Solaris 10 11/06
     Solaris 10 11/06
     USB
     Intel Corporation
     82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3
     uhci
Solaris 10 11/06
     Solaris 10 11/06
     USB
     Intel Corporation
     82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4
     uhci
Solaris 10 11/06
     Solaris 10 11/06
     USB
     Intel Corporation
     82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller
     ehci

Dell Inspiron 8100 with W2K installed

Dear all:
I've just bought a new Dell Inspiron 8100 notebook with W2k installed. I configure the HD in a way that there is 6G space left unallocated and unformatted. Initially I plan to install solaris on that space. However when I search in this board I found many issues about Solaris install, not to mention for those notebooks.
Well, I'm still in hope, has anyone ever successfully installed Solaris 8.0 on same platform? Or can suggest me a backup plan before I give it a try. Anyway, I won't like to waste $45 once I buy one.
thanks,
-Jun

One workaround I have seen for laptop keyboards not funtioning correctly during install it to connect a USB keyboard to the system. I cannot guarantee it will work on this particular system, but its worth a try.
ct

Dell Inspiron 1525

I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 (laptop) dual booting Vista and Solaris with GRUB. Yes, I read that Vista won't boot with GRUB. But when the machine rebooted so I could fix the MBR, it just worked. So, I didn't need to use BCDEDIT (and such).
All is well (in Solaris) except:
1) Audio
2) Wireless Net
3) Net
4) WebCam
1,2,4 are nice-to-have(s) for me. But, #3 is a need. I've read thru docs and installed the SKGEsol driver for the Marvell device. However, the device will not show-up in ifconfig. see...
http://homepage.mac.com/shaffer.david/dell_insp1520_net.tgz
[dump of commands and such]
Any advice is appreciated. And any info on #1,#2, and #4 is appreciated as well.
The device break-down is..
o Audio [SIGMATEL STAC 92XX]
o Cam [Creative Labs Laptop.. Web Cam]
o Wireless Net [Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN]
o Net [Marvell 88E80XX]
I've mostly searched around for networking; just 'cause it will lead to other things being easier - so I don't have to reboot and such.
Anyway, thanks in advance.
Other stuff..
- Solaris boots much faster than Vista and the drive light even goes off after the login screen shows for a few seconds. In Vista, the booting is slower and even after the login comes-up, the disk light stays on for several minutes (???).
- I was pleasantly suprised to find all of the dt tools including dtksh and dtbuilder.
- Well, there's a lot of cool thing I want to get into with solaris, but no time to type..so..... later

Hi,
I have installed Solaris on my Dell Inspiron 1525 using a USB HDD. I am looking for the drivers for Wireless LAN and NIC.
Can you guide me where i can find them.
Reards,
Gaurav

I have a Dell Inspiron 1545 and I can't download Adobe flash or Adobe acrobat reader, when I try to play my games it says update flash and when I try to download it the screen comes up blank

I have a Dell Inspiron 1545 and I can't download Adobe flash or Adobe acrobat reader, when I try to play my games it says update flash and when I try to download it the screen comes up blank

Try the offline installers:
Flash Player for ActiveX (Internet Explorer)
Flash Player Plug-in (All other browsers)
For Adobe Reader: http://get.adobe.com/reader/enterprise/

[SOLVED] Function Keys Problem On Dell Inspiron N5010

Yesterday I bought a new laptop (Dell Inspiron N5010) and immediately installed Arch Linux on it. But when I launched the installation framework, I needed to use fdisk to partition my drive manually and to open another tty, ctrl + alt + f2 or up to f7, none of them worked. When I use f4 or f5 for example, it changes the brightness of the screen cause these keys have icons on them which represent the brightness control. So I quitted, took care of that fdisk issue and got back, installed Arch Linux successfully. When launched in GNOME 3, nothing was changed. It still uses f1, f2, ... and so on as "just function keys" without using "Fn" key. It's fine somehow cause my system automatically detected those keys, I can use every single function of my keyboard. But without using Fn key, I can't actually use any fx key for my own use. For example, I can't use Tilda anymore cause when I use only f1, it tries to open monitor control stuff.
So... any ideas?
Edit: It seems that this problem is all about Arch Linux. A friend of mine has the same laptop and he has just tried Mint Debian RC and function keys worked properly. So, there's a problem and it seems it's related to Arch Linux (or maybe Xorg version, somehow?).
Last edited by Jeaquares (2011-05-18 13:07:06)

xdunlapx wrote:The function key on my dell laptop was set to the F keys, meaning you have to hit the function key and then an F key to activate the F key. I switched it in the bios so I don't have to hit the function key to activate the F keys. So I would have had to hit Fn+Ctrl-Alt-F1 for example to get to TTY 1. Now since i switched it off in the bios All I have to do is hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to the terminal. But in order to turn off wifi from the F key (for example) I have to hit Fn+F2. It's switched.
I can't tell you how this was helpful. I've never noticed that there was an option in BIOS's Advanced menu for this. I updated it as "Function Key" and it solved my problem, thanks.

StarTech Adapter not working with Dell Inspiron 15, model 3521

Side Note: I wrote a reply to a thread that was from 2013. I do apologize because the link was sent to me by my bf and I did not realize how old it was. Since my reply has to be approved I can't delete it.
Current Issue: StarTech Adapter not working with Dell Inspiron 15 model 3521
I bought my Dell laptop last year and at first I did not realize that it had only one audio jack (combo, as the specifications manual says), I only noticed when I was trying to plug in my Ozone Rage ST headset.
I searched online threads and found out that I needed an adapter and most people mentioned Headset Buddy. I couldn't find any adapters for sale in my country (or employees didn't really know what I was talking about) and since Headset Buddy is a bit expensive, I decided to try StarTech Headset adapter for headsets with separate headphone/microphone plugs - 3.5mm 4 position to 2x 3 position 3.5mm M/F www.amazon.com/.../ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top.
It arrived today and let me tell you that I can't make it work. I can hear everything but I can't get the external mic to work or even be detected. I have always used my headset (mostly for gaming) and I prefer to use my external mic rather than the internal one. First I connected my headphone and mic jacks to the adapter and only after that did I connect it to the laptop combo jack. I also tried vice-versa. It didn't work, regardless of the order. I even tried with a different headset and it still didn't work. What else can I do?
I have also found a thread on Dell forums saying that Headset Buddy doesn't even work on Dell Inspiron 15, model 3521. So since it doesn't work and I'm assuming StarTech doesn't, either, what am I to do/buy?! I am getting extremely frustrated and I'm very disappointed with Dell because the brand should have included with the laptop a proper working adapter for these situations and not make its customers buy an extra accessory to make whatever working gear they already had function. It just doesn't make sense to me! Either make the changes work properly or simply don't touch anything. I spent some of my savings on this laptop which, overall, is great but now I am being forced to spend more on an item to allow me to use my headset. I am running out of options here and even Dell can't seem to tell its customers with 100% certainty what really works for this specific model.
If I can't make the adapter work, I just hope I can return it, otherwise I'll end up with no refund and with a piece of equipment I have no other use for!
Any thoughts?

Hi,
Thanks for your reply.
This is the first time I was forced to buy adapters such as these so I don't know if I'm doing something wrong or if there's anything else I can do to make it work. When I plug the adapter to my Dell, the laptop presents me with several options such as: headphones, headphone, speakers, skull candy headphones, etc (maybe some may have different names but since I see them in Portuguese, I'm not quite sure how they appear for someone who has the computer in English), I have picked different options and it still doesn't work, the only noticeable changes are sound quality related, I guess.

Dell Inspiron 11 3000 series

I have an acer aspire one that has been trucking along for nearly 6 years now with almost continuous use (about a year of non-use time in there, but that's it). I use it primarily for taking notes in class and such, but it also sees a lot of programming and other use since I take it to campus each day and also on trips. In this time, I have lost almost all the feet and now screws are slowly disappearing. It also has started to have some overheating issues when the heatsink seems to shift positions slightly (it shuts off within 90 seconds when this happens). In addition, I find myself wishing quite often that it could do things like stream video properly (without jittering) and compile the kernel (it takes FOREVER on that tiny hyper threaded single core atom processor). So, I've been looking at a replacement that can get similar battery life, has a similarly sized screen (preferably touch as well because I think that would be great fun to use), more than 1Gb of RAM (I can have about 7 tabs open on chrome and then it starts having troubles since I have swap disabled), and a better processor. My most basic requirement, however, is that the laptop be able to run arch.
I've been looking at the Dell Inspiron 11 3000 series since it seems to have the best battery life of my various 11.6" options out there. The processor is a dual core Celeron which sounds old and antiquated to me, even though I believe its based on Haswell (not sure there). It also has 4Gb RAM and 500Gb hard drive. Another option, for $50 more, is a pentium processor which sounds even more antiquated, but is still based on Haswell.
http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-11-31 … redir=true
My question is this: Has anyone managed to get arch working on one of these things? I also imagine that the most new-fangled component would be the touchscreen, so does anyone know the general support of those for linux?
Thanks in advance for any help.

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Dell Inspiron 1525 Problems

Hello.
I just purchased a Dell Inspiron 1525 with Vista Home Premium preinstalled. I wanted to know if there is a way to install a fully working Arch Linux system on it. I tried with 2007.08 CD only to fail at getting the wireless card to work. Dell Inspiron 1525 comes with a Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini Card. I tried installing both the latest vista and xp drivers for this card via ndiswrapper. I thought all was well since I got the message that said that the driver is installed and the device was present. However, when I checked iwconfig, the normal 'wlan0' was not in the list, just 'lo'. Can someone help me with this?
Also, I used a ZenWalk liveCD to test out if I have sound support. It seems like the sound doesn't work either, but that may be because I used an old liveCD. The 1525 comes with a 'SIGMATEL STAC 92XX C-MAJOR HD Audio' or also known as "High Definition Audio 2.0".
I have also learned that although Dell does offer this laptop with Ubuntu installed, they changed the wireless card on the ubuntu version. I don't know if that means anything. Also, I have heard of many who have gotten linux installed on this laptop. I have some experience with linux, but all of that is with a desktop pc. (Used Arch for the longest after trying out Gentoo ^^)
I checked the Ubuntu forums on this matter, and they seem to have a lot of documentation on it, but I am unsure if it will apply to Arch. Does Arch come with the bcm43xx drivers? If it does, then that means I have to blacklist it or something. I really need help.
- Dennis ^^
PS: Thanks in advance for any help!

Thanks for all of the replies. I downloaded the newest ISO and tried to get it working again. Well, b43 did not really work as I hoped it would, so I went and used ndiswrapper. To my astonishment, it works. Apparantly, something changed from the 2.6.22 to 2.6.24 kernels that made it so that the ndiswrapper module won't be detected with a broadcom card with the 2.6.22 kernel. This is all a guess, but it kinda makes sense. Only one problem though, I did all of the usual steps to set up the wireless connection... and it can't seem to connect to the internet... I did:
iwconfig wlan0 essid ********
iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed
iwconfig wlan0 key restricted **********
ifconfig wlan0 up
dhcpcd wlan0
*I have tried this with other network cards, those on my desktop, and they worked fine.
When I do 'iwlist wlan0 scanning' , I detect all the networks that I expected to see, but it doesn't connect to any of them, which I think is really weird.
I don't really care much for vista, but I miss messing around with a decent CLI, and I will be majoring in Computer Science once I get into college, which would definately include classes on Bash scripting, so I wanted to get a linux install on my laptop since my desktop died. I have experience with Ubuntu, Gentoo (Stage 1 and Stage 3 installs.. Stage 1 was a giant pain and failed the first 4 times), ZenWalk, MEPIS, SuSE, Fedora, Arch, and some others. Of all of these, I liked Arch the best. So, I was really hoping I could get it installed.
Well, it seems I will be stuck with vista for a while... but I must say, it's not AS bad as I thought it would... still slow and all though ^^
@anti-neutrino:
Hello. Dual-booting is tricky stuff in my opinion. I have never done it myself, so I can't really help you there. But, there are plenty of documentation out there on it. According to http://www.goodells.net/dellrestore/mediadirect.htm, DellMediaDirect is installed on a hidden partition. So, I'm guessing that as long as you don't touch that partition, it would still be there. What I think you would have problem with is where to put grub (or lilo). The safest thing to do, I would think, is to place it in a floppy, if you have an external floppy drive, or place grub into a USB Flash drive which you would be able to boot from. I have no idea how to do this in Arch, but I have done it before in SuSE. And as for Vista, as long as you don't touch the vista partition, it should stay the same. The booting is the only problem I can see for you. If the boot loader (grub or lilo) is installed in a separate medium (floppy/USB) then to boot into the linux partition, all you would have to do is boot from the medium, eitherwise, it would boot into Vista (or whatever you have that boots up first) automatically.. that is unless they changed something, and knowing how fast linux is developed, there are a lot of changes, so I'm not really sure if it still works this way.
@Warper:
I don't really mind the sound right now. If I can get internet to work, I know I can solve all the other problems later, as all I need to do is look up how to solve for it. But, yeah I know sound is muted by default in Arch. It's just that with my desktop, sound was automatically detected by other LiveCD's that I was confused when those same LiveCD's couldn't detect it. Again, this might just be that the LiveCD's use an older kernel.
- Dennis ^^
PS: I reinstalled vista and wrote this post in it. T_T
Last edited by skittlehawk (2008-06-06 23:30:16)

Dell Inspiron 14R WLAN Card Disabled

Hello,
I have a Dell Inspiron 14R running Windows 7 64 bit. I have had my PC from this past November; about 7 months.
I was using my PC, and suddenly, I started to experience wireless problems. I was unable to get onto the internet. Other devices on my wireless network are able to log on to our network, although that is irrelevant because my radio wasn't picking up anything at all, when it always had from that same location. The connection worked fine using an ethernet cable. After the problem occurred, my Targus Bluetooth mouse also stopped working. This is what I have tried:
Going into Network and Sharing Center, disabling my network adapter, and then enabling it again. This usually does the trick. After doing it over 5 times, it never worked.
Doing a simple system restore. I attempted restoring 3 different times to an update within the last week, each of which failed (probably another issue altogether).
Re-installing my WLAN CARD Driver, and then restarting. This didn't solve the problem.
Checking the Device Manager. It reported that the wireless card was running properly.
Using the DW WLAN CARD Utility. It says under the Link Status tab, after Connection Status, Radio Disabled. I tried right-clicking the icon in my Notification Area, and then clicking Enable Radio. It then shows an alert saying "The WLAN card is still disabled. Use the wireless switch or hotkey to enable it." Pressing Fn + F2, which is also supposed to enable the radio, did nothing, with no action or sign whatsoever from Windows. I also tried running tests under the Diagnostics tab. All hardware tests passed, with the Connection test giving me this alert again: "The WLAN card is still disabled. Use the wireless switch or hotkey to enable it," and then failing. The same thing happened when running the CCX Client diagnostics.
What should I do? The problem is obvious that my card is disabled, as all signs point to that. Does anyone have any ideas on how I could fix it? I've tried everything I know, not to mention countless Google searches.
Thanks!

I am experiencing the same issue with my Inspiron N4010. The network card has disappeared from the system devices. After a reboot, the network connected for about 15 seconds and then went away. I had the system devices displayed at the same time and the network card also disappeared when the network went down. The card worked fine until today. What is the cheapest route to fix this?
Also note the sound has come and gone over the past year. It is not working at the moment. It would be nice to fix both, but will the cost be greater than buying a new laptop or tablet?
I can't say I will ever buy a Dell product again. These laptops seem to only last a year or two. Even my more expensive work laptop which is less than a year old has had its motherboard and hard drive replaced.

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