Laptop advice

[Colin Brace]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Joe Demeny <jd1987 at borozo.com> wrote:

> I need to get a budget-priced laptop, such as one of these:
>
>  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834101123

Read the user comments carefully. For this laptop, you'll find, for example:

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Cons: RTL8187B wireless chipset. If you want to use a wireless
connection under Linux this will give you problems. Tried several
distros with no success. Was finally able to get it to work
*intermittently* with Windows 98 drivers under Ndiswrapper - XP
drivers would not work.
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If you plan on using wireless lan, you'll need to read the fine print
very carefully to determine whether there is BSD support for the given
chipset.

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 Colin Brace
 Amsterdam
 http://lim.nl