On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:02 AM, m0gely <[email protected]> wrote > > Bill Barry wrote: > > > I am happy with my HP Pavilion DV6000, it is more than a year old now > > and is holding up well. It's Broadcom wifi works with ndiswrapper, and > > recently with the kernel b43 driver. > > Hopefully you will miss this recall fun then: > > > http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&docname=c01087277 > > You'll know it happened if your wireless LED suddenly goes orange and > can't be turned on (card will be undetectable, mobo is at fault), or the > laptop doesn't power up consistently. I've seen two dv6000's in the last > couple months with this problem. But they are not in the batches listed > on HP's site. Nice. > > -- >
Thanks for the warning. I followed the above link and indeed my laptop is on the list of ones that might be in trouble, but I don't have any of the symptoms listed as of yet. The only real problems I have had with this laptop and linux is that the power management will work in one kernel, then break in the next and I have spent a lot of time tracing down problems with the suspend mode. It is getting a little more stable, but I am always careful to upgrade kernels only when I have time to troubleshoot the suspend mode. More than WIFI compatibility I would check to see if suspend mode worked well if I were shopping for a laptop. Bill > > m0gely > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
