5 Jan
2008
5 Jan
'08
4:47 a.m.
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 23:37 -0500, Mark Weaver wrote:
I'm giving serious thought to loading 5.1 on my Inspiron 1501 laptop, but I'm wondering about certain hardware support such as the following:
- Broadcom Wireless Adapter - 1390 Wlan (bcm43xx)
Last I checked not even Fedora runs this thing properly. Avoid.
Actually Fedora 7 ran it wonderfully. I used ndiswrapper and a script to initialize the adapter during the boot process.
I'm running OpenSUSE 10.3 on this laptop right now and there is plenty to like about it, however I'm a RedHat man at heart and there are things that I'm used to on my RedHat systems that I don't want to give up. I'd like to get back to a RedHat based distro for this machine if I can.
Mark