[Nottingham] laptop for linux - suggestions

[Keith Binley]

what wireless products are you running?  I have a corega pccl-11 and from=
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speaking to the corega tech support they were pretty certain that thay=20
haven't seen any drivers for linux.. =20

=2E.okay for now, as the laptop i use is a work one and comes with win2k,=
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not as i look to buy a lap top for me..

running suse 8.1 btw

kb

On Friday 13 June 2003 15:24, Tom Bird wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Godfrey wrote:
> > HI list,
> >
> > I have some money to spend on a laptop computer (about 1 grand), and =
of
> > course I want to run our favourite OS on it instead of that glass thi=
ngy
> > (grin).
> >
> > Any suggestions as to appropriate make/model would be appreciated.
>
> I have a Dell Inspiron 4100 which runs Debian unstable just fine.  It's
> got an Nvidia geforce 2 go, which was the only thing that caused me any
> problems whatsoever (nvidia cards need a binary driver for Stuff), but
> even then, it was pretty easy to get around.
>
> Wireless LAN, compact flash reader, usb webcam, all works fine.  It eve=
n
> speed steps from 733 to 1.13ghz when you stick the power cable in.