At Mon, 25 May 2009 10:56:13 +0200 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
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> >Of Lanny Marcus
> >Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 3:14 PM
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> >Subject: Re: Auto-installing security updates?
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> >Probably not the best distro for Laptops,
> >but many people on this list are using CentOS on their laptops.
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> So what's considered to be the "best" choice for laptops? I understand
> mileage may vary and so on, but I think there might maybe be a general
> consensus at least?
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> Unfortunately I haven't had too good an experience with CentOS out-of
> the-box-installs with respect to wifi-NICs on laptops, but that's also the
> only thing I've been having problems with OTOH.
The *Intel* WiFi-NIC (Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini
PCI Adapter) on my IBM Thinkpad X31 worked mostly out-of-the-box. I
just needed to download the firmware and I was up. So did the SMC Ez
Connect PCMCIA card I used on my previos laptop (I think it was a
prism54 flavor), also once I snarfed the proper firmware for it.
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