Roger Oberholtzer skrev:
On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 16:17 -0400, Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:
On 07/13/2010 03:57 PM, Andreas Jaeger pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
On Tuesday 13 July 2010 18:14:23 Richard Atcheson wrote:
Now if only we could pick and choose the hardware built inside laptops. I would sure like to tear out the wireless in my laptop and replace it with one that provides an open source solution.
I hear that. I see so many nice laptops that have all I want, but they 'ruin it' with an ATI graphics chip. ATI has been nothing but trouble for me. I avoid them like the plague. It is not a philosophical stance about open source. It is simply that ATI are delivering drivers of questionable quality. And they drop support for hardware that is not so old. In fact, I am looking for a nice laptop right now. I guess I will be sure it also does not have a Broadcom chipset. The 'suggest a good laptop' question is an eternal one on this list. I don't dare ask for the current opinion. Even if I am interested.
IMHO, it might be a good idea to demand testing whether wireless networking works - with the full WPA2, TKIP, PSK and AES thing turned on, with static IP - on the thing before buying it. BR, Gudmund -- This message and any replies to it is scanned by http://www.fra.se. Please direct any complaints about this to them. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org