On Nov 10, 2007 1:48 PM, Ern jura exjura@gmail.com wrote:
Which is the best laptop to run centos on and where can I buy one without Windows Vista pre loaded cause I will uninstall it any way. Please tell me the best sites that ship worldwide.
Toshiba P105-S6207
Wireless ------- Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)
Works out-of-box including for WPA/EAP networks.
Ethernet -------- Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Works out-of-the-box. Performance seems REALLY good.
Video ----- Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller
Works out-of-the-box.
Flash Card Reader ---------------- Card reader in front of laptop is a "Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)". This doesn't work of of the box on openSUSE 10.2 as they don't include the modules in the default kernel; this supposedly will change with openSUSE 10.3. But sussing out the required incantation and getting it up and running took only a few minutes.
Go to http://developer.berlios.de/projects/tifmxx Get tifm-0.6b.tar.bz2 tar xjvf tifm-0.6b.tar.bz2 make make install
To start it immediately - modprobe tifm_core modprobe tifm_7xx1 modprobe mmc_core modprobe mmc_block modprobe fm_sd