Jerry Franz wrote: > For a new laptop your best hope for a successful native install is > probably Ubuntu 10.10. Laptops in particular are difficult platforms for > hardware support and CentOS5 is not 'cutting edge'. If you want CentOS > on it to work well, you will probably need to wait for CentOS6 - which > could be a month or two. I'm eagerly waiting for Centos 6. Is so refreshingly nice to use a real computer operating system. It reminds me of the good old mainframe days long before MS-DOS 1. Thank you for the recommendation. I'll have a look at Ubuntu. Mark suggested http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k/RHEL5 which might solve the problem and produce a working Centos wifi. Centos is not 'cutting-edge'. It's just solid, reliable, plain boring and just works. Everything a good computer system should be. > An alternative I've used is to install VMware Workstation on top of > Windows and install Linux into a VM. Running fullscreen the practical > difference is nil. Then you by and large get the laptop hardware support > gratis from the windows layer including things like wireless and video > drivers drivers. I'll keep that as a back-up option. Thank you very much. Best regards, Paul. GB.