[TriLUG] Good distro for laptops?

[Roy Vestal]

I'm running Red Hat Linux 9 with a Linksys  WPC11 ver 3. Worked right
out of the box.

Robert, RHL has been working great on all my laptops since 6.2. Here are
the specs of this laptop:

PII-333
224MB RAM
20GB HDD
NeoMagic 128 2MB Video/Sound combo

X starts slow, but it works great. I even have Win4Lin and VMWare
running on it.

Never had to "tweak" it to get it to work. Only suggestion, if you have
older sound hardware, install sndconfig as it is not part of the default
installs.

HTH

On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 09:52, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> Joshua Gitlin wrote:
> > Robert,
> > 
> > I do believe that Mandrake 9.1 
> > handles LinkSys wireless cards (although I'm not sure) and I do know 
> > that it handles power management fine on my laptop.
> 
> Keep in mind that there are several versions of the Linksys wireless 
> cards (WPC11).  Version 1 and 2 should work fine with Linux, and version 
> 3 has been reported to work.  Version 4 of the WPC11 is based on an 
> unsupported Broadcom ship and will not work at all, according to what 
> I've seen.
> 
> This is not a function of the distribution, necessarily, but more on 
> whether the drivers have been made available to the Linux kernel developers.
> 
> --Jeremy
> 
> 
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