Re: Lap top for Linux

From: General Schvantzkoph (schvantzkoph_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 15:34:19 -0400

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 16:53:19 +0000, Highland Ham wrote:

> Having Mandrake 9.1 on a dual boot machine, I now intend buying a Linux Only
> laptop ,preferably with an AMD 64 processor for use with Mandrake 10
>
> Would appreciate receiving any advice on possible incompatibilty problems
> with certain hardware components, like graphics cards ,soundcards and above
> all any internal V92 modem ( sadly I won't be having Broadband -ADSL before
> Sep 2005)
>
> If internal modems are a 'pain' to configure I could hook-up an external V90
> modem (to comms port)
>
> Your advice (especially on 'no go' components) will be much appreciated
>
> Frank (located in northern Scotland)
>
> amateur radio station : GM0CSZ / KN6WH

You'll need an USB modem if you are going to attach an external modem to a
new laptop, ps2, serial and parallel ports are all gone.

I've just gotten a Compaq R3000z AMD 64 3400+ laptop. The wireless card is
a Broadcom 54G 802.11b/g card. There is no Linux driver for it however the
XP driver + Ndiswrapper works fine and was very easy to install. The
winmodem is supposedly an Agere (according to XP, Linux just identifies it
as a mysterious Nvidia modem). I haven't had any luck getting it to work
yet, it might be hopeless. Everything else works fine. If you get a big
screen then you have to hack the Xorg.conf file because Xfree and Xorg
don't understand 1680 x 1050 displays. I've installed the Nvidia
accelerated driver and it works fine. I'm using Fedora Core 2 with a
custom 2.6.8.1 kernel which I patched for Win4Lin. Both the 32 and 64 bit
versions of FC2 work fine. There is no performance difference between the
two but the 32 bit is preferable because Ndiswrapper can only operate in
32 bit mode because there is no such thing as a 64 bit XP driver. Likewise
Win4Lin can only operate in 32 bit mode because it is hosting Win98 which
requires the x86 protected mode. FC2 installed easily in both it's 32 bit
and 64 bit incarnations. Mandrake 10.0 AMD 64 version installed easily but
it wasn't very stable. Mandrake 10.0 32 bit version did not install. The
10.1 beta 2 version wouldn't install either.

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