I think opting for an intel wireless card would be a better choice. Dont go for the broadcom(bcm) as well as the dell 1395 mini wireless card(please check for out of the box working).
The realtek and sigmatel audio chipsets work well. Mine is a Dell Inspiron 600m, which is pretty old. It has a 32MB dedicated ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 graphics card, sigmatel audio chipset, Fujitsu 80GB HDD, NEC 8x DVD writer. Everything works well expect the dial-up internet connection. And so I don't use any restricted drivers except of course the ipw2200 firmware. My ATI uses a Free Driver (they call open source driver). For Lenovo 3000 N 200, or be any model the chipset and the hardware may change. So check for the hardware details. Go for an intel wireless card, may be 3915 or so. Even for Dell you have choice of different adaptors(bcm, ipw, wl etc). And going for a HP or Compaq laptop would be a poor choice. Go for a Dell or Lenovo which comes with either GNU/Linux or FreeDOS. Going for Nvidia graphics is also good, well ATI or Nvidia sometimes you may have to rely on proprietary drivers. I am using (more)Debian Lenny GNU/Linux, Fedora GNU/Linux currently and have used Ubuntu GNU/Linux before. -- Anoop Jacob Thomas --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
