On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:50:15 +0000 (GMT) Donald Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My first question would be: > Have you looked at any of the suppliers who sell with Debian preinstalled? > > I would definitely get a laptop/ notebook with an Nvidia graphics card. > Nvidia support is excellent. ATI support (even with proprietary drivers) is > not so great. I believe that Intel graphics are also well supported (my laptop has a 945GM; it works fine, but I haven't tried to do anything particularly challenging with it). > Look at the internal wireless card. It's possible to get a broadcom card > working but they don't work well. I've seen My Acer Aspire's (3690-2672) Broadcom 4318 does, indeed, not work with the native bcm43xx (I haven't yet tried the next generation b43 code yet) as well as I would like [0], but it works flawlessly under ndiswrapper. Note that in the thread referenced above, there's a discussion about an Acer screen flicker problem that can crop up in various contexts > laptops with builtin Atheros chipset cards. Atheros, Orinoco, and Prism > cards are great. However, I personally prefer wireless pcmcia cards with > external antenna connectors su as Ubiquity. Atheros is certainly great (I haven't used the other two), although you'll have to accept the non-free HAL. BTW, you might consider posting questions like this on debian-laptop. [0] https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/bcm43xx-dev/2007-September/005769.html Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
