[wplug] Seeking advice (possibly OT)

[Bryon Gill]

Internal wireless hasn't been a problem for me- but you will probably have to 
build ndiswrapper drivers.  Sigh.

Bryguy

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Vanco, Don wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org
>> [mailto:wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org] On
>> Behalf Of Bryon Gill
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 9:32 AM
>> To: General user list
>> Subject: RE: [wplug] Seeking advice (possibly OT)
>>
>>
>> The #1 thing that doesn't work on modern laptops with linux is
>> power management.
>> If you want a hassle-free experience and
>> suspend-to-ram/suspend-to-disk is
>> important to you, be sure to do some research on the model you
>> want.  I have an
>> old thinkpad that suspends properly using apm, but I haven't
>> had a laptop since
>> that one that suspends properly under linux.  Modern laptops
>> only support ACPI
>> which is not supported well for a variety of reasons.
>>
>> So if you don't mind powering down and booting up a lot,
>> nevermind, but if you
>> want to be able to suspend for a few hours then pick up where
>> you left off,
>> you'll have to do some research.
>>
>> Anecdotally, I've heard that thinkpads and Toshiba laptops
>> have better support than most for this than the makers of my
>> last two notebooks,
>> Dell and HP.
> 	Good point.  FYI - my IBM T41 (aforementioned Centrino POS) and
> Red Hat Desktop (beta) work flawlessly.
> 	"internal" Wireless is also a possible point of contention.
>
> Don
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