Laptop Suggestions
Dan Jenkins
dan at rastech.com
Wed Aug 24 17:26:01 EDT 2005
Michael ODonnell wrote:
>>You'd have to get a PCMCIA wireless card if you go that route
>>because the Apple "Airport Extreme" is a Broadcom chipset, and
>>Broadcom doesn't play well with Open Source.
>>
>>
>
>The butthead mentality appears to be dominant at Broadcom,
>doesn't it?
>
>I've got an HP zd7000 series machine that's pretty sweet
>by most measures but I generally recommend that people not
>buy them for use with Linux because they incorporate HW
>from several companies where that butthead mentality reigns
>(Broadcom being just one example) so HW specs aren't available
>from which FOSS drivers can be developed. :-(
>
>
Is this a problem mainly with the wireless Broadcom products, or all?
I have a number of IBM servers which came with Broadcom gigabit network
interfaces.
I've had no problems with Linux (at least Mandrake). They just worked.
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