[Gllug] Budget desktops

[j.roberts]

Matthew Smith wrote:
> Andrew Farnsworth wrote:
>> I would just go for a Dell since it is in your budget.
> Be careful with low-end Dells - I bought an Inspiron 530 mini-tower in 
> January and the Foxconn motherboard has various compatibility problems 
> with Linux; in particular, the wired network doesn't work consistently. 
>   I have often found that it doesn't always connect to my router, and I 
> have to disable and re-install the kernel module to get it to work (and 
> sometimes even reboot the machine).  It then doesn't give any other 
> problems, but I wouldn't recommend it to a newbie.


We have often encountered similar problems with Dell and Linux. These 
usually are resolved with later kernels.

However, a quick workaround is to install a cheap supported NIC (or on a 
server, an expensive one!).

MeJ
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