Haven't got it to work "right" with ndiswrapper yet. Other projects required my time and had to set it aside for the time. It does work alright, as long as I don't tax it too hard. But my experience with Broadcom products have never been too good, so I don't
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 21:21 -0500, John Scott wrote: think this is necessarily Linux related. I can send you my configs if you wish.
I didn't have this problem with the laptops my company bought. Did have a problem with the Synaptic touchpad driver. Oh yes, I forgot about that - sometimes after a while, it starts getting funny - doesn't register a click, for example. But I mostly work on a desk with a mouse plugged in, so that doesn't bother me too much.
Agree. This laptop is very good and my company was able to get them for under $1,000 ea. Geez, that's cheap. Is this the PY416 model (i.e. 1.8ghz with 1400x1050)? I paid the equivalent of around $1600 USD and that's a damn good price here.
They came with a gig of RAM (shared with video) and 80GB hdd. Mine came with 512 but thankfully they were thoughtful enough to use a singe module, leaving one slot open. My 1gb dimm is already on order...
My only real complaint is the display is rather dark and dull if you have ever used one of HP laptops with Brightview screen. I don't think mine has Brightview (at least it's not written anywhere on the notebook or in the included literature), but the screen is quite bright and crisp. Speaking of which, the screen is detected as a "LGPhillips" - any idea what that is?
Nice to know someone else is kicking this laptop around with Linux. When my projects finish up, I'll try SuSE 10 again and maybe Ubuntu as well. I'm actually planning to switch to Gentoo on this notebook. I use my notebook as a testbed for a lot of things, and I want to be able to keep it up to date without having to re-install every so often. I love SUSE, but when an installation gets too old and you try to keep things up to date, it gets a bit messy. At least at my level of spec file hacking :-)
One other thing that puzzled me is that the WinXP Pro included wasn't 64bit. Hans