op 02-10-14 11:33, wwp schreef: > Hello, > > > On Thu, 02 Oct 2014 11:01:19 +0200 Johan Vermeulen <jvermeulen at cawdekempen.be> wrote: > >> op 02-10-14 09:01, wwp schreef: >>> Hello Frank, >>> >>> >>> On Wed, 1 Oct 2014 22:57:30 -0600 Frank Cox <theatre at melvilletheatre.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Today I found myself in need of a laptop to run Centos on. And that simple statement led to an all-day odyssey. >>> [snip] >>>> Since it has now become amazingly difficult to get a laptop if you're not planning to use Windows, at least around here, I'm wondering what the rest of you fine folks do when it comes to purchasing a laptop? Next time this comes up, I'd rather not have to spend all day on something that used to take fifteen minutes. >>> Dell Latitude series, from the old D810 to more recent E65xx ones. >>> >>> >>> Regards, >> Hello All, >> >> when buying laptops I try to avoid Ati/Radeon cards, because of pas issues. >> But maybe it would be all right now. >> >> Definitely no Broadcom wireless. >> No Lenovo because of id/pairing protected cards. >> In short, I look for laptops with as many Intel parts as possible. >> >> Although it is true that Amd is a lot of power for a buck. > What's wrong w/ Broadcom wireless? Works fine here (Broadcom > Corporation BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)), even > if I had to install their driver (it's well documented on the CentOS > wiki). > > > Regards, > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Hello, as it says on the Centos wiki : *ATTENTION:* This driver module is NOT persistent across kernel upgrades (i.e. when you update the kernel, and boot the newly installed one, you'll have to do this over again). That's a bit inconvenient. Greetings, Johan