Laptop recommendations

[gboyce at badbelly.com]

On Fri, 14 May 2004, Grant Young wrote:

> The biggest problem right now with Linux on laptops is the Centrino
> chipsets, especially the builtin wireless.  Intel is still working on
> Linux drivers, especially for the wireless card.
> 
> I've recently got a Toshiba Tecra M2 which is pretty nice Centrino based
> machine.  (Weight is a factor for me.)  I have to shut off the wireless
> and use a PC Card when I want wireless which is a pain.  I tried the
> Linuxant driver loader but couldn't get it to work properly.  The other
> annoyance is that the BIOS settings appear to be accessible only through
> a Windoze application so I have to set it to dual boot.  But other than
> that I like it. :-)

Intel released the drivers.

http://ipw2100.sf.net

They're still working on certain features like AD-HOC mode and a few other 
things, but for most uses it's very stable.

If you have an ipw2200 chip instead, the initial version of the driver 
should be released soon. 

http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/