On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 14:33 -0400, Jason Dixon wrote: > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 05:05:12PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2008-06-16, Han Boetes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > > >> I'm curious as to the 'modal' laptop that the developers use - > > >> that would probably be a good steer for what to buy. > > > > X and T thinkpads are in the majority. There are a lot of > > trade-offs between different models though, you'll have to do > > some research to work out what's good for you. > > I purchased a X40 for travel to and work at c2k8. The only problem I > had was with the iwi(4), which doesn't resume properly. I replaced it > with a mini-pci ral(4) that resumed fine. But the ral(4) had issues > with hostap mode. jsg@ fixed that shortly into the hackathon.
FYI, newer Thinkpads have mini-pci cards whitelisted in the BIOS. One can't install a ral(4) in them without hacking the BIOS (not recommended). http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_unauthorized_MiniPCI_network_card Brad Walker
