On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:45:26 -0400 Phil Wroe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Has anyone been successful in purchasing a Compaq laptop either > > without an OS or possibly loaded with a distro of linux? ... with an > > AMD X2 processor?? > I have a Compaq Presario R3000. It came with WinXP and I was successful > in loading Linux, The only thing I was unable to do is get it to work my > Broadcom wireless chip set. If it has the Broadcom 4306 you can get it working with ndiswrapper. Some people also report success with the new bcm43xx open source driver, but I could never get it to work, so I always go back to ndiswrapper. Works flawlessly for me. _______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/
