[CentOS] Centos laptop support

Thu Oct 2 12:16:05 UTC 2014
Johan Vermeulen <jvermeulen at cawdekempen.be>

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.

Greetings, Johan