On Sunday 08 June 2003 19:46, Colburn wrote: > I don't know yet because I am shopping for a laptop. I have read about > IBM, Dell, and Toshiba laptops as being somewhat more compatible. > My Latitude works flawlessly, but it's not new. The modem wasn't built in, rather a PCMCIA winmodem which I replaced with a Zoom hardware modem. (silly thing set me back just over $100.00) I found a 3 Com 10/100 PCMCIA NIC pretty reasonable from one of my vendors which Linux liked just fine. I have a docking station which has 3 Com NIC, Adaptec SCSI adapter, extra drive bay, etc. and everything in it worked under Linux as well. I had a Compaq Armada in my shop about a year ago which I installed Linux on, just playing with it, and the only issues I had were built in winmodem which didn't work and I had to manually assign resources to the sound. I'd be scared of Compaq now because of their merger with HP. Support really sucks since that happened. Dell has always been my personal preferrence for laptops, for winders reasons mostly, but again mine works flawlessly under Linux. Hope this helps. Joebewan
