I tend to purchase used equipment from a refurbisher, so this is old
equipment.

Dell Latitude E6440 installs fine, but bluetooth does not have drivers
that I can find. Some weird Dell labeled part. There was some stuff on
their site indicating you could make it work, but I'm lazy so I used a
USB dongle for my bluetooth.

Toshiba Satellite A665 installed fine and everything worked very well.
It did not have bluetooth, so I picked up a USB dongle for that.

Both machines running ASCII. Installation was a matter of plugging in
the thumbdrive, booting and installing. No special weirdness to work around.

Rod

On 4/9/20 1:03 AM, tempforever wrote:
> Devuan ascii successfully installed, regularly used on the following
> laptops:
>
> Lenovo Thinkpad T550 -- the sd card reader does not work (think this
> is a hardware problem though, I did get a refurbished machine)
>
> HP Pavillion - not sure the exact model #
>
> These next two ran ascii, then upgraded to beowulf:
>
> Toshiba Satellite A135 (i386)
>
> Acer Aspire AS7750G
>
> The HP has a problem with the builtin wifi adapter (sometimes it works,
> sometimes it disappears). I believe it's overheating. May replace it
> someday, but using USB wifi adapter in the meantime.
>
> How difficult was it? Not really any more than installing to a desktop.
> Didn't run into any major problems. The installer didn't seem to be
> the most intuitive for setting up LVM+LUKS volumes, but it did work,
> eventually.
>
>
> terryc wrote:
>> This is a hardware question.
>> Which brand and model(s) of laptop have people successfully installed
>> devuan onto?
>> How difficult was it?
>>
>> Thank You In Advance.
>>
>> The long story; I finally have a need to purchase my own personal
>> laptop and have spent the last few days searching for such a beastie
>> that I can order.
>>
>> I have a strong preference to not pay the Microsoft Tax and not waste
>> my money on bits for which there are no linux drivers. Obviously
>> running Devuan is preferable.
>>
>> Unfortunately, there appears to be no local vendor of Linux only
>> laptops around any more. The only one in the coutry that I could
>> located actually buys Win OS laptops and co-installs Linux and I'd
>> prefer to avoid the future hassles that will cause(leopard-spots).
>>
>> Note, also having great difficulty finding out how to order such a
>> beastie from the major global brands.
>>
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