laptop recommendations, Phase II

[jjohnson at sunrise-linux.com (miah)]

Also, the newer thinkpad's wireless NIC's don't play well with linux, though,
maybe that's changed since I last checked.  I just remember spending
far to long getting linux running on those things, what a pain.

Looking now, I see 'madwifi' probably will work, but look at the doc
that I had used, its definately not a 'plop in disk and install' type
system: http://www.w-m-p.com/linux-on-t40.html

I had to do several of these installs for people at work, not
something I enjoyed.

-miah

On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 08:03:25AM -0400, David Kramer wrote:
> I want to buy a fairly powerful laptop. Looking at Inspiron 9100 and HP 
> zx5000, but Thinkpads are *REAL NICE*. I think the best model for me is the 
> R51, because I don't care about weight, and I'm willing to give up some 
> processing power (over the Dell and the HP) for a nice screen and 
> built-like-an-SUV tough.
> 
> I haven't found any info on the R51 and Linux though. All of the recent 
> Thinkpads seem to be very compatible (except maybe for suspend mode, but 
> that's a big problem with Linux on most laptops), and for the most part they 
> all use the same level of components, and Centrino is fully supported now. 
> 
> I have very high hopes, but would love to hear from someone who has done it. 
> BTW, I expect to use a distro with 2.6 kernel, like SuSE 9.1 or Fedora Core 2 
> (if I start hearing better things about dual booting with Windows)
> 
> Thanks in advance.
>  
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