[Nottingham] query on new laptop

[Simon Sleaford]

Tried Ndiswrapper to get the Broadcom chipset working? Worth a go.

On 14 July 2010 13:47, Frederic Vagner <fred at vagner.me.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just got a brand new laptop from DELL, Precision M4500, I use Fedora
> 13, and I transferred my home directory from my old Dell XPS M1210 to
> the new install of Fedora.
> Everything is working perfectly fine except Wifi (the card is a Broadcom
> BCM43224, apparently too recent, the group working on the driver says
> that they are working on supporting this new chipset, on their website),
> and the 3D rendering on the nVidia Quadro FX880M, but it should work in
> the next few days, when I get around to it.
>
> I think it also depends which distro you want to use on your laptop, and
> how much time you want to spend to set it up properly. I would recommend
> Fedora or Ubuntu as they are more user-friendly when it comes to setting
> up all the bits and pieces like Wifi, Video cards/screen and USB.
>
> Also, DELL is good, but more expensive than Acer, for example, however
> I've never tried Acer.
>
> Fred
>
>
> On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 11:18 +0100, James of the Family Moore wrote:
> > Well... I've just installed OpenSuSE 11.1 on a Dell
> > threw-it-together-out-of-spare-parts (OK the base is an Inspiron 8200
> > with a processor upgrade from a 1.2GHz Celeron to a Mobile P4 at 1.9GHz
> > but everything else is out of different machines!), things just
> > mysteriously worked. I wasn't expecting the wireless (Intel Pro/2100
> > 3B/MIM2000 Centrino) to work out of the box, to be honest, and was
> > pleasantly surprised to discover that in fact it does. Apart from 3D
> > acceleration on the GF4 MX440 graphics which I hope to get running at
> > some point (some help there maybe? Apparently the latest NVidia package
> > doesn't support the chip...)
> >
> >
> >
> > On 14/07/2010 10:37, Michael Simms wrote:
> > > My HP laptop worked first time installing Linux on it. Everything
> > > 'just worked' including bluetooth, wifi, webcam, everything. I was
> > > very pleasantly surprised. I'd always recommend their stuff at this
> > > point.
> > >
> > > Michael Simms, CEO - Tux Games LTD
> > > http://www.tuxgames.com
> > >
> > > On 07/13/2010 09:03 PM, stripes wrote:
> > >> Hi Folks,
> > >>
> > >> I am planning to get a new 64-bit laptop (prefer NVDIA graphics) and
> > >> run ubuntu.  What makes would you suggest?   I prefer HP and Dell
> > >> (have an XPS 1330 running lucid lynx) and have had experience with
> > >> Acer (mixed) and Toshiba (not so good).
> > >>
> > >> Any suggestions?
> > >>
> > >> thanks
> > >> stripes
> > >>
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