At Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:04:00 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
On 02/16/2011 12:30 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
At Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:02:57 -0500 CentOS mailing listcentos@centos.org wrote:
Mathieu Baudier wrote:
I'm considering buying a second-hand Thinkpad T60 (with 2 GB RAM), as a secondary laptop in order to run CentOS 5 on the field.
<snip> > I would be grateful if people having used CentOS on this model could > share their experience (good or bad). Oddly enough, I asked on another techie mailing list I'm on just last week or so, for someone I know considering a laptop, and a T60 was greatly approved of.
I have CentOS 5.5 (i386) running happily on an X31 Thinkpad. IBM laptops are really good laptops.
I also have run Centos 5.5 on an X31 and moved to a X200. The T60 fits in between these in the Thinkpad evolution, IIRC. It was fine on both and I had no trouble with wireless on either. The wireless concern was mentioned in another response on this thread.
The wireless on the X31 is an Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04). Intel wireless chips are *very well* supported *out of the box* under CentOS. You do need to download and install the proper firmware.
good luck, roger wells
mark
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