[Gllug] London laptop recommendations

[Richard Huxton]

Jason Clifford wrote:
> I bought a couple of PCI wireless cards last week and both are supported 
> by the bcm34xx driver in the kernel (once you obtain and install the 
> firmware) however the sad fact is that using that driver is not very 
> practicle as the driver falls over under the slightest load.
> 
> In order to get a reliable connection I had to install ndiswrapper and use 
> the windows drivers.

I ended up doing the same with my Dell Inspiron 1300. Wireless would 
work OK during setup and for a few pings. As soon as signal level 
dropped or activity increased it would collapse.

> My experience is that it is only wireless hardware that I experience this 
> with.

Can't get my external monitor to work at 1280x1024 with the laptop (i810 
driver). It'll dual-screen with the internal at 1280x800 and external at 
1024x768 but won't go higher. I can do it with XP, but who wants to?

Oh, and I can't get sleep-to-X to reliably work. Don't need it enough to 
  spend long with though.

Otherwise, everything just works out of the box (and this is a stock 
Debian too, not one of your fancy -buntu distros).

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   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd
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