Re: Thinkpad T400 wireless

PerfectReign wrote:

Varghese Mathew turned on the Etch-A-Sketch and wrote:

Hi,

I am planning to buy a thinkpad T400.

The wireless networking options are
1. ThinkPad 11b/g Wireless LAN Mini PCI Express Adapter III
2. Intel 5100 agn
3. Intel 5300 agn.

Which of these should I buy?
The intel wireless page says 5100/5300 don't have linux drivers yet.

If they don't have a native driver yet, maybe another Intel driver will
do. You should aslo ask Levono what they recommend.

In addition you may be able to get by with ndiswrapper until the right
driver comes along.

I've used it on a few desktop systems with DLink and Linksys wireless
cards and found it works fine.



Is the Thinkpad 11b/g supported out of the box on OpenSuSE?
[ if it's supported but not out of the box, can somebody help me through
(like guiding the dummies) to set this up once I buy? ]

Likewise, I am planning to choose the Intel 4500MHD integrated
graphics option. Will compiz-fusion work on that ?

Thanks
/varghese

Have a look at the Lenovo 3000 series and see if they meet your needs ,as
both video and wireless work out of the box.

In fact almost everything does the only thing that does not work is the
built in winmodem .

The /etc/modprobe/sound needs editing to for sound work ,if required I will
send my working one to you.
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