[ale] laptop advice needed

[Jim Kinney]

I have a Dell Latitude D620 for work. Fedora 10. If I close the lid,
it suspends.

More importantly, when I open the lid it resumes!

The wireless required that I load the firmware into /lib/firmware.
Once done, it works well. It has reassociation issues as the AP's seem
to hiccup and when moving around campus but a quick script with a
panel button to stop NetworkManager, stop networking, unload the
wireless module and restart it all and it works fine for me.

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
> Richard Bronosky wrote:
>>
>> The only Linux laptop advice I can give is buy one that comes with
>> some form of linux. Otherwise you're likely to spend months on
>> sleep/suspend, wireless, and video issues. It doesn't have to come
>> with your distro of choice. If the OEM got Linux to work, so can you.
>>
>
> You have to be careful. Sometimes the OEM has little experience with
> linux and didn't really get it to work. Just google for eee pc wireless
> and look at the complaints.
>
> I think Dell has done a good job supporting Ubuntu on their laptops. You
> can get the Inspiron 15N ($374), Mini 9 ($264), or 1330N ($834) with an
> integrated webcam. You can configure the 15N pretty nicely for around $500.
>
> http://dell.com/ubuntu
>
> All the best,
> Brian Pitts
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