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Re: [suse-amd64] amd64 laptop choice
- From: John Szakmeister <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 11:32:41 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <200410190721.37474.john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Monday 11 October 2004 11:04, Bodo Bauer wrote:
[snip]
> We also tested the ASUS L5000D, HP/Compaq Presario R3000 and the Arima
> W730. All of those should work well with SL92.
I have a Compaq R3000, and it has a Broadcom 802.11 b/g chipset. I
thought Broadcom chipsets weren't supported, at least not natively.
Every solution I've seen involved the use of ndiswrapper, and that
precludes the use of 64-bit linux. Am I wrong? If so, I'd love to hear
it! :-) I've been dying to get 64-bit Linux installed on it, but I've
avoided the issue due to lack of WLAN support for Broadcom chipsets.
-John
[snip]
> We also tested the ASUS L5000D, HP/Compaq Presario R3000 and the Arima
> W730. All of those should work well with SL92.
I have a Compaq R3000, and it has a Broadcom 802.11 b/g chipset. I
thought Broadcom chipsets weren't supported, at least not natively.
Every solution I've seen involved the use of ndiswrapper, and that
precludes the use of 64-bit linux. Am I wrong? If so, I'd love to hear
it! :-) I've been dying to get 64-bit Linux installed on it, but I've
avoided the issue due to lack of WLAN support for Broadcom chipsets.
-John
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