New Laptop and 802.11
Lennart Sorensen
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Sun Aug 12 02:21:14 UTC 2007
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 08:09:13AM -0400, Frank wrote:
> Well, life is full of mixed emotions. My wife bought me an early
> Christmas present. A nice new Acer Aspire 5100 laptop. Hence my happiness.
>
> The bad news is that installing Kubuntu 7.04 doesn't find the built-in
> wifi and will require some fiddling on my part. So my love of Kubuntu
> has dropped a touch. In the meantime my wife is depressed because she
> figures I have a defective laptop because I haven't used it wirelessly
> yet and I keep telling her to "be patient, Linux and wireless aren't a
> perfect couple yet".
Which wireless chipset?
Many laptops have intel wireless, which generally works very well.
Broadcom is often near imposible to make work. Atheros may work great
or not at all, depending on the chip type (newer ones generally work
very badly or not at all, while old ones worked very easily).
If you want a laptop that works with linux, the centrino logo is
actually not a bad thing to look for.
--
Len Sorensen
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