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