OT: Linux flavors...

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 02:53:21AM -0400, brian at aljex.com wrote:
> Their use of a broadcom card that needs something very do-it-yourself
> like ndiswrapper is not necessarily the result of ignorance of other
> cards that are better supported. My laptop has a built-in broadcom
> card too, 125 mbit thanks to the latest driver update, and it requires
> ndiswrapper too. (aka: ndisulator in freebsd) and I certainly knew
> about better supported cards when I baught it.
>
> So much else about the machine is desirable, and unique, that in the
> real world you just have to accept the realtek nic and the broadcom
> wi-fi and the conexant winmodem. I mean, use a cardbus card that
> sticks out and must be shipped/unshipped every time you pull the
> machine out, when there is a great card with outstanding antenna
> built-in? Forget it!

It sounds like you have teh same model HPaq laptop as my client; did
you get the modem and suspend stuff working?

Cheers,
-- jra
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