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I too have a Dell laptop and i can say that the wireless worked a treat. I _THINK_ it was working out of the box. It certainly wasn't any hassle. That's Mandrake 10.1 on a Dell Latitude D600 (see my other post on Mandrake though, this laptop will get SUSE 9.3 whenever i get a break in development long enough to do the whole Oracle reinstall debarcle). Running C/C++ development, Java development and Oracle 9i with almost no problems (see my next post). CPU Speed stepping was another issue altogether mind. IIRC it took me a couple of days to get that working and the design of these things is that if you DONT have it working and the CPU is at full frequency all the time (1.6Ghz for me) then the fan runs full pelt all day and drives you insane. VERY bad design i think. Anyway, the point was that i'm assuming that if you have a mobile centrino based laptop that has an Inel IPW2200 wireless in it then you didn't ought to have any problems at all. I also get no problems at all with an Atheros based DLink (madwifi drivers), aside, of course from the fact that it's purely crap. That's not linux's fault though, it DOES work :o) Martin. On Thu, April 14, 2005 10:11, David Johnson said:
On Thursday 14 April 2005 09:46, Aaron Trevena wrote:I gave Ubuntu Hoary Hedgehog a try for a couple of days but found that debian on a laptop used as a serious workstation just doesn't work. It found all the hardware just fine and worked great for general surfing the web etc but trackpad behaviour was quirky and installing pptp and perl modules for work was a pain.I have a Dell laptop with a Synaptics pad that's working fine with zero configuration required with Kubuntu Hoary. The great thing about [K]Ubuntu is that if something doesn't work, report a bug and it'll get fixed *quickly*. Again for the hassle installing pptp and perl modules - tell them. They're very responsive to such reports. Regards, David. -- David Johnson www.david-web.co.uk - My Personal Website www.ethereye.org.uk - EtherEye Network Host Checker www.penguincomputing.co.uk - Need a Web Developer? -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html
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