[TriLUG] Linux for Laptops?

[Dave Sorenson]

If I may ask, what was the model of the HP? I'm guessing it has the
Broadcom chipset? How did you end up getting it to work?

I have a Compaq 2598 with the integrated Broadcom G wireless and I had to
buy Linuxant's driverloader to get it to work. The NDIS wrapper project
failed me. ATM I'm dual-booting winblows/ SUSE 9.2, but the SUSE power
mgmt is giving me fits. I've been playing with KUbuntu on my test desktop
and really like it. (Not trying to start window manager war, I just prefer
KDE over Gnome) ;-) If suspend et al works I'd be willing to try it on the
lappy.

Thanks!

Dave S.




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> I have converted 4 people to Ubuntu on laptops, and 3 of them had very
> little computer experience. Everything seems to work flawlessly on all the
> laptops I have installed on. Two Dells, a Sony Vaio, and an HP (the only
> one that gave me a problem because of its integrated G wireless). I would
> highly recommend Ubuntu for several reasons, one, everything seems to
> work, even suspend. Two, it's based on Debian. Three, I have it running on
> 10 machines at home and love it :). Good luck
>
> William
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