[ltp] What to take care of when buying a Lenovo?

[Petr Praus]

That's probably your main issue, 2.6.18 is really, REALLY old - more
than year and half which in case of notebook hardware means a lot.
Intel 4965AGN didn't even exist on the market back in September 2006
when 2.6.18 was first released.
Maybe it's time to go for some bleeding edge ;)

Peter

On 3/9/08, Michael B Allen <ioplex@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/8/08, Petr Praus <p.praus@gmail.com> wrote:
>  > Hmm, your issue with 4965AGN is quite strange, because I use my R61
>  >  with 4965AGN running SuSE Linux 10.3 to connect to our WiFi network on
>  >  daily basis without any problem at all. It was just a matter of
>  >  installing two packages (iwl4965-ucode and iwlwifi) - there's really
>  >  no need to compile your own kernel ;)
>  >  Same applies for Gentoo and Arch which I ran before SuSE (= no need to
>  >  do anything special - just install two packages)
>
>
> OK. I'm glad to hear that.
>
>  I'm currently running CentOS 5.1 on that machine which is kernel
>  2.6.18. I think when RH establishes a kernel for a major version they
>  stick to it. Perhaps when 5.2 comes out it'll have the driver. As it
>  is now, CentOS does not have any stock packages with "4965" or "wifi"
>  in the name.
>
>  Mike
>
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