I have good experience with IBM and DELL. I have had success connecting both of them with Wifi. Most of them come with Intel WP2100 or WP2200 which have a free driver but non-free firmware. You compile the driver, download the firmware (free as in free beer) to /usr/lib/firmware/hotplug then when you modprobe the driver it will automaticly loads the firmware.
-- Ori Idan On 12/29/06, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Maxim Veksler wrote: > I OTOH, have good experience with: > - IBM (note: Not the new lenovo junk!) > - DELL > - and LG. > > Most of the IBM, DELL laptops I came across were friendly to Linux 2.6.x . > LG T1 (the one I'm using now) needs some additional .ko to get 2.6.18 > work with its Agere ET-131x NIC, other then that it seems to be > L-friendly as well.) > > The only brand I have bad experience is HP, because of their service > and warranty terms here in IL, and also because of the quality of the > product (*this by the way does not come to contradict the excellent > server hardware HP manufacture). Did you get the WiFi connections going on these laptops ? Modem ? Peter ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
