[ale] And now, on topic - laptop hardware recommendations

[Paul Cartwright]

On Mon July 12 2010, Larry Johnson wrote:
> I like the deals one can get with Dell also, but before purchasing any
> given model I'd check out what wireless chip the model has.  Go to
> http:://linuxwireless.org to check out the support for the chip.  My own
> experience with a Dell Inspiron 1545 is that wireless support is the
> crankiest thing to configure.

with my older XPS Dell laptop, Ubuntu is just about the only distro that has 
worked with wireless right after the install.. Others, INCLUDING Debian, I 
had to either install the IPW2200 app OR install wicd.. wicd ALWAYS worked.

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