Re: cheap subnotebook

2005-05-06 Thread Julien Wolf
On 5/1/05, Felix Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Its hard to recommend anything as i dont know what country you are in! oh I forgot about that... I'm from Germany > > I would not recommend the ibook as the ONLY wifi card you can use with > it has no linux driver, and never will > > On 4/30/05

Re: cheap subnotebook

2005-05-04 Thread Sharninder
> > Which USB WiFi dongle do you use? > You seem to have misunderstood me. I personally don't use a USB WiFi dongle myself, since I don't have the luxury of WiFi yet :(, but I know that such dongles do work with linux and I managed to unearth and old thread from debian-powerpc. You might want t

Re: cheap subnotebook

2005-05-04 Thread Tim Cutts
On 2 May 2005, at 6:36 am, Sharninder wrote: On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 09:58 +0930, Felix Hudson wrote: Its hard to recommend anything as i dont know what country you are in! I would not recommend the ibook as the ONLY wifi card you can use with it has no linux driver, and never will On 4/30/05, Julien

Re: cheap subnotebook

2005-05-02 Thread Felix Hudson
Yeah its a reverse engeneering issue, the wifi card in an ibook ( or powerbook) is a broadcom chipset, they dont have a kernel module compatible with linux. So stay clear of broadcom based anything for linux compatibility reasons... On 5/1/05, David Mandelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On

Re: cheap subnotebook

2005-05-01 Thread Sharninder
On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 09:58 +0930, Felix Hudson wrote: > Its hard to recommend anything as i dont know what country you are in! > > I would not recommend the ibook as the ONLY wifi card you can use with > it has no linux driver, and never will > > On 4/30/05, Julien Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

Re: cheap subnotebook

2005-05-01 Thread David Mandelberg
On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 09:58 +0930, Felix Hudson wrote: > I would not recommend the ibook as the ONLY wifi card you can use with > it has no linux driver, and never will Just wondering: why? Does it just need some reverse engineering, or is it a legal issue? signature.asc Description: This is a d

Re: cheap subnotebook

2005-04-30 Thread Felix Hudson
Its hard to recommend anything as i dont know what country you are in! I would not recommend the ibook as the ONLY wifi card you can use with it has no linux driver, and never will On 4/30/05, Julien Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > just looking for a cheap (<1000 EUR) subnotebook, running ca.

cheap subnotebook

2005-04-30 Thread Julien Wolf
just looking for a cheap (<1000 EUR) subnotebook, running ca. 5-6 h on batteries any recommendations execpt the iBook 12''? Julien Wolf