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Posted by Don on July 19, 2008, 10:55 am
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> asdf wrote:
>> Shopping for my first laptop and hoping for something which
>> I won't have too much trouble installing linux on. My favorite
>> distros are Fedora, Centos and Gentoo. One thing I'm worried in
>> particular is the wireless driver--alot of people complain about
>> having to use ndiswrapper or some such thing to get it to work.
>> As far as specs I'm looking for something with at least
>> 2Gb of RAM, 15 inch screen, g/n wireless, 160Gb HD, DVD burner, and 3
>> hr battery life.
>> thanks for all the good advice.
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> I don't know if this is common to linux too, but on Solaris x86, the
> fingerprint reader and camera I've not managed to get drivers for. WiFi
> worked as soon as I installed Solaris. Laptop here is a Sony VGN-SZ4XWN/C.
>
> So if you want a camera or fingerprint reader, I would worry more about
> that, as I think that is more difficult to get working. I would think in
> this day and age, WiFi should be quite easy.
Depends on the distro and the wireless card (chipset). For me the
wireless worked right out of the box with PCLinuxOS 2007. The wireless
configuration was performed during the initial setup through an easy to
use setup program. Despite all of the bally-hoo surrounding Ubuntu, I
was never able to get the wireless to work, at least not natively.
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