reccomendations for linux on laptop

From: Joe Doe (joe_at_doe.com)
Date: 05/06/05 

Date: 6 May 2005 13:08:25 +0700

Any reccomendations for what works well for a wireless card for a
laptop? From my web searching, I've come up with two candidates: the Netgear
WG511 and the Hawking HWC54G. (Atheros super-G chipset and Prism GT
chipset respectively)

I've used debian woody for my server for years, but something
tells me this might not be the best distro for laptop. Any
general advice at all on running debian on a laptop would be
appreciated. (woody vs sarge vs sid). Kernel 2.4 vs 2.6.
It's a Thinkpad 570E (PIII, 500MHz) that is arriving in the mail
next week. Other distributions?

Thanks,
joe

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