On 2013-01-31 18:46, Paula Graham wrote: > I've got the i3 version of the Zoostorm laptop - 12.04 installed > perfectly except wifi chip is a bit of a pain, needs to be hunted down, > compiled and then recompiled every time the kernel upgrades - native > driver should be in kernel 3.8. The current driver is a tad flaky, drops > connection irritatingly.
An important thing to remember when buying laptops is that the wireless chipset is usual a mini/micro/whatever PCI card and can be swapped out for something with better support. When I run into a weird/Dell/Broadcom wifi chipset with bad Linux support, I buy the last-generation Intel chipset on eBay for £10 and toss the old in a pile somewhere. It's cheaper and easier than you think it is. Certainly easier than compiling a driver every few weeks. Tyler -- "Privacy has to be viewed in the context of relative power. For example, the government has a lot more power than the people. So privacy for the government increases their power and increases the power imbalance between government and the people; it decreases liberty. Forced openness in government – open government laws, Freedom of Information Act filings, the recording of police officers and other government officials, WikiLeaks – reduces the power imbalance between government and the people, and increases liberty." -- Bruce Schneier -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
