Ron Blizzard wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Do you have something other than an intel wifi chip? > > No, not any more. I had a Broadcom card, but an older laptop we gave > away needed a WiFi card, so I invested $12 into an Intel card on eBay > and installed the Broadcom card in the "old" laptop (it worked fine > under Windows). I got the Broadcom working with FWCutter under CentOS, > but its speed was all over the place. The thing I've never been able > to get working in Linux Mint, is the hibernation. If I close the lid, > it locks, unless I "hibernate" it first. But the main thing I don't > like about Ubuntu/Mint is that each upgrade is an "adventure." Of > course, CentOS 6 won't work on my laptop (no PAE) but I've still got > CentOS 5.x for that. We'll see what issues it has on desktop. I'm > hoping that installing the proprietary Nvidia drivers won't be the > hassle they are under Linux Mint. Nouveau is getting better, but it's > still not good enough. > Since Pentium Pro, only old 400 MHz-bus versions of the Pentium M lack PAE support. I have 3-4 years MSI VR-601 that works flawlessly on RHEL 6 Beta. I had to play with grub boot line (nomodeset) for better Intel graphics, and when I pull out power he hibernates, but it's working exceptionally well. Ljubomir