[NBLUG/talk] Laptop Distro

[David]

I have a dell 9100 laptop and have the broadcom wireless chipset and 
broadcom wired chipset.

I have a dual boot on it, with WinXP and Gentoo Linux 2004.3.
Gentoo is not easy to setup, and I did compile the kernel (2.6.9), but the 
hardware works.

I've gotten the wired chipset to work, the sound to work (I used open sound 
system, not advanced linux sound archiecture), the mouse pads to work, and 
the wireless chip set to work (with a package called ndiswrapper, as linux 
has no native wireless support for this chipset which dell calls the 
wireless 1400)

You can probably get all the hardware to work with almost any distro, but 
almost all of them will require tweaking, mostly because of the wireless 
chipset, and possibly because of the sound.

Hope this helps
ShadowEyez
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Johnson" <gnuguy at gmail.com>
To: "General NBLUG chatter about anything Linux, answers to questions, etc." 
<talk at nblug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 11:15 AM
Subject: [NBLUG/talk] Laptop Distro


>I was wondering what your opinions on laptop distros of linux were.  I
> have a Dell 5100 Laptop and I want to put linux on it (again).  Before
> I had FC2 on it, and it seemed to work fairly well.  So I was going to
> install FC3 on it, then I read on the fedoraforum.org site, that C3 is
> having problems on laptops.
>
> Basicly, I'm looking for a distro that right from the install will
> support the Broadcom nic, the Linksys Wireless card, and the winmodem.
> With out much config hassels.
>
> Any opinions?
>
> -Steve
>
> -- 
>      "Knowing others is wisdom, knowing your self is Enlightenment."
>                                                   -- Lao-Tzu
> |C8H10N4O2|
>
> _______________________________________________
> talk mailing list
> talk at nblug.org
> http://nblug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk