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RE: [in] Re: [suse-amd64] amd64 laptop choice
- From: "Curt Purdy" <purdy@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:46:51 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <20041020104678.SM11548@wolfcub3kv>
Andi Kleen wrote:
> One way to get wireless under 64bit is to buy a Cardbus card
> with a supported chipset and use that instead of the builtin.
That is what I have done with the Proxim Gold a/b/g card. SuSE recognized
it immediately. I have a little trouble understanding Broadcom's hype about
95% of all new laptops supporting their chip and having so little support in
anything but windoze.
Curt Purdy CISSP, GSEC, MCSE+I, CNE, CCDA
Information Security Engineer
DP Solutions
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If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked.
What's more, you deserve to be hacked.
-- former White House cybersecurity zar Richard Clarke
> One way to get wireless under 64bit is to buy a Cardbus card
> with a supported chipset and use that instead of the builtin.
That is what I have done with the Proxim Gold a/b/g card. SuSE recognized
it immediately. I have a little trouble understanding Broadcom's hype about
95% of all new laptops supporting their chip and having so little support in
anything but windoze.
Curt Purdy CISSP, GSEC, MCSE+I, CNE, CCDA
Information Security Engineer
DP Solutions
-----------------------------
If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked.
What's more, you deserve to be hacked.
-- former White House cybersecurity zar Richard Clarke
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