[CentOS] Centos laptop support

[wwp]

Hello Johan,


On Thu, 02 Oct 2014 14:16:05 +0200 Johan Vermeulen <jvermeulen at cawdekempen.be> wrote:

> 
> 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,
> >
> >
> >
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> 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.

Well well, here I upgraded kernels thru the updates many times, never
had to reinstall the driver module, it simply works - and now I wonder
why! :-)


Regards,

-- 
wwp
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