Thank God for NDISwrapper
On 9/5/06, thad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If its winmodem or proprietary modem well dont expect that its driver
will be included in your favorite distro. In my Dell it has a wireless
lan that uses proprietary driver which suse explicitly said it will
not include any driver for any proprietary hardware producst. Good
thing theres a opensource wrapper that I can use and now I have a
working wireless for my linux laptop.
thad
On 9/3/06, Froilan Romualdo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I tried Ubuntu 6.06 LTS but it couldnot detect or install the modem on
> my laptop. I wish I can use it because what I like about Ubuntu it can
> easily update the programs and adding softwares applications is very
> easy. More power to Linux and open source softwares. Happy Free
> Software Day (FSD).:D
>
> On 8/29/06, thad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > it may not be attractive for the hip crowd but for most businesses they
> > prepare IBM because of extensive support not only business but in non-window
> > os as well.
> >
> > thad
> >
> >
> > On 8/29/06, Paolo Alexis Falcone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 04:07 +0000, Froilan Romualdo wrote:
> > > > Friends, I want only to share to you my experienced in choosing a
> > >
> > > Got an IBM Thinkpad T42p running on Ubuntu 6.06... works like a charm as
> > > everything just works (sort of... I haven't made the hard drive active
> > > protection system work with hard disk head parking). As far as I could
> > > tell, the T40, 41 and 42 series works well with Linux (as Linux SATA
> > > support does not yet include being power-aware, and that affects
> > > SATA-based ones like the T43 and T60).
> > >
> > > The one thing I'm primarily after is the support of the manufacturer of
> > > the machine particularly on their BIOS updates, followed by keyboard
> > > quality, then Linux compatibility, hence the preference for Thinkpads
> > > (despite those being unattractive, low-feature black bricks so unlike
> > > the Vaios and Macbooks :)
> > >
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