Re: reccomendations for linux on laptop

From: John Thompson (john_at_vector.os2.dhs.org)
Date: 05/07/05 

Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 23:05:08 GMT

On 2005-05-06, Joe Doe <joe@doe.com> wrote:

> 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'm using a Cisco 340 without problems.

> 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?

I have VectorLinux with kernel 2.6.9 here on my Thinkpad-240 (PII-400 with
192MB RAM). 

-- 
John (john@os2.dhs.org)

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