* Ryan Verner (2003-12-15) writes: > On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 13:41:06 +0100, Ralf Angeli wrote >> As I said before I am in course of deciding wether to buy an AlBook >> or not. It would be nice if you could say something about what is >> working and what is not to help me with this decision. (c; The >> following would be especially interesting: [...] >> * Modem > > No idea; haven't had to use this yet, and don't forsee myself needing to.
Hm, I will need it for a dial-up connection at home. If it is a Conexant modem it shouldn't be a problem to make it work with a driver from <URL:http://www.linuxant.com/>. >> * WLAN (I suppose this isn't working because of the proprietary stuff >> by Broadcom in Airport Extreme; maybe there is a possibility to use >> an alternative Mini-PCI card?) > > Unfortunately not, the card is indeed unsupported. I'll probably be using my > Orinoco card though, which should work no problems (it's PCMCIA). I will buy a PowerBook without the Airport Extreme card so this might be an option for later if I decide to buy a WLAN router. In the Gentoo forums I found a quite interesting thread regarding the 15" AlBook, maybe this is useful for you, too. Here is the link: <URL:http://tinyurl.com/zbr6>. AFAICS sound is working as well. So I guess I will have to go to the store to get one of these nice machines although everybody around here is sceptical. (c: Regards, Ralf
