On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:09:47 +0300 Alexander Kapshuk <sashaandta...@gmail.com> wrote:
... > Wi Fi: anything but Broadcom (i was told Broadcom Wi Fi has a lousy Linux > support, correct me if I'm wrong); It's really not that simple. Broadcom has apparently never released any specs, so the native linux drivers have to be clean-room reverse engineered. That caveat notwithstanding, there's an active development community, and support for many chips, particularly older models, is excellent, at least in station mode, which is most probably the main thing you'll need in a laptop. The 4318 in my Acer laptop, for example, works quite well. Support for some newer chips (LP-PHY cores) has been progressing lately. This is your starting point: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
