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Subject: [ale] And now, on topic - laptop hardware recommendations
From: ale at pcartwright.com (Paul Cartwright)
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:36:59 -0400
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On Mon July 12 2010, Larry Johnson wrote:
> I like the deals one can get with Dell also, but before purchasing any
> given model I'd check out what wireless chip the model has.? Go to
> http:://linuxwireless.org to check out the support for the chip.? My own
> experience with a Dell Inspiron 1545 is that wireless support is the
> crankiest thing to configure.

with my older XPS Dell laptop, Ubuntu is just about the only distro that has 
worked with wireless right after the install.. Others, INCLUDING Debian, I 
had to either install the IPW2200 app OR install wicd.. wicd ALWAYS worked.

-- 
Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800
Registered Ubuntu User #12459
http://usdebtclock.org/

References:
- [ale] And now, on topic - laptop hardware recommendations
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  - From: terrorpup at gmail.com (Chuck Payne)
- [ale] And now, on topic - laptop hardware recommendations
  - From: larryfeltonjohnson at gmail.com (Larry Johnson)

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