local linux laptop

[Anand A Rao]

 DWL-650 PCMCIA card  worked out of the BOx for me on Mandrake8.0 and 7.2. I
 have been having some problems bringing it up on mandrake  8.2 and RH 7.3
 though.

 cheers
 Andy
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Seth Gordon" <sethg at ropine.com>
> To: <discuss at blu.org>
> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 8:54 AM
> Subject: local linux laptop
>
>
> > We have found room in our budget to spend about $1K on a laptop, and as
> > luck would have it, PCs for Everyone is selling such a machine
> > (http://www.pcsforeveryone.com/notebook.html), with about the same
> > computing horsepower as the (three-year-old) desktop machine I'm using
> > now.  Has anyone else tried using this machine (or others in the same
> > line -- I assume they have the same motherboard) with Linux?  Are there
> > better deals out there?
> >
> > I want to get a 802.11b card along with the laptop. The only kind PC4E
> > sells is D-Link DWL-650, which is not listed in the Hardware HOWTO.
> >  Does anyone have experience with this brand, or should I just grab a
> > different card from CompUSA or some such?
> >
> > --seth
> >
> >
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