[NCLUG] laptop wireless, anyone got a USB 802.11b adapter?

[John L. Bass]

YMMV ... I've been running Fedora and Redhat on various notebooks and 
laptops
for a decade, with few problems. Even Solaris for that matter. So i'm 
pretty sure the
Distro war isn't necessary.

I mostly like Dell C840's these days, reasonably cheap on Ebay, and they 
take enough memory
and have high res LCD's to do CAD. It's easier to get wifi working under 
Fedora than
on XP that it's co-installed with. Two batteries will run most of a day, 
and easy to hot
swap when you carry a few more for a trip.

Before that my favorite $50 notebook was Compaq Armada 4220's, three 
batteries and
it would run a day or two. Run's older Redhat fine ... chokes on memory 
by FC4, but
still runs.

John

danbob wrote:
> I agree on the Ubuntu, Rich. I had Fedora on a Dell D600 laptop, didn't
> want to deal with ndiswrapper, and the internal Intel 2200 B/G Wireless
> NIC never did work. When I installed Ubuntu on the machine, it didn't
> either....but all I did to fix it was put in my "magic" Orinoco wireless
> card and apply all the updates via the web. After that it saw the
> internal Intel card just fine, and I have the Orinoco external card
> stored in the closet for the next recalcitrant laptop I come across. 
>
> DAN
>