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Marc Onrust
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Joined: 03 May 2005
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 Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 1:23 pm Post subject:
Re: HP Pavilion zd8000
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Liam Marshall wrote:
| Quote: | Am so pissed off with windoze and its vulnerabilities. Have been
running/administering a linux terminal server lab at school for 2 years
now K12LTSP 4.4.x right now.
going to switch my laptop to completely Linux. Just trying to determine
the best distro.
I would like to edit video and use the firewire ports and broadcom
wireless. Anyone know of a known working distro with this laptop?
help greatly appreciated
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Jim
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Joined: 20 Feb 2005
Posts: 609
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General Schvantzkoph wrote:
| Quote: | On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 23:06:42 -0600, Liam Marshall wrote:
Am so pissed off with windoze and its vulnerabilities. Have been
running/administering a linux terminal server lab at school for 2 years
now K12LTSP 4.4.x right now.
going to switch my laptop to completely Linux. Just trying to determine
the best distro.
I would like to edit video and use the firewire ports and broadcom
wireless. Anyone know of a known working distro with this laptop?
help greatly appreciated
The Broadcom wireless is going to require Ndiswrapper, there is no Linux
driver for it. I've got a Compaq R3000z which has the Broadcom in it and
I've been able to make it work with Ndiswrapper so I expect you'll be able
to do the same. My laptop has an Nvidia graphics chip so there are no
problems using Linux because Nvidia does a good job of providing graphics
drivers. Your laptop has ATI graphics in it, I don't know how well those
are supported.
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Radeon 7500 mobile under SuSE 9.2 is spot on. 1400x1050 XGA native
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Jim
*nix forums Guru
Joined: 20 Feb 2005
Posts: 609
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| Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 1:10 am Post subject:
Re: HP Pavilion zd8000
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Liam Marshall wrote:
| Quote: | Am so pissed off with windoze and its vulnerabilities. Have been
running/administering a linux terminal server lab at school for 2 years
now K12LTSP 4.4.x right now.
going to switch my laptop to completely Linux. Just trying to determine
the best distro.
I would like to edit video and use the firewire ports and broadcom
wireless. Anyone know of a known working distro with this laptop?
help greatly appreciated
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dunno about the specific laptop but I do have a Dell Inspiron working
under SuSE Pro 9.2 with a Broadcom wireless. Went straight on, zero
config required, I get 11Mbps on a 54g Linksys AP with 128-bit WEP. Not
full speed for the card (also 54g) but then I'm not gaming on it, I just
want to surf and do my email. |
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General Schvantzkoph
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Joined: 20 Feb 2005
Posts: 425
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| Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:11 pm Post subject:
Re: HP Pavilion zd8000
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On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 23:06:42 -0600, Liam Marshall wrote:
| Quote: | Am so pissed off with windoze and its vulnerabilities. Have been
running/administering a linux terminal server lab at school for 2 years
now K12LTSP 4.4.x right now.
going to switch my laptop to completely Linux. Just trying to determine
the best distro.
I would like to edit video and use the firewire ports and broadcom
wireless. Anyone know of a known working distro with this laptop?
help greatly appreciated
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The Broadcom wireless is going to require Ndiswrapper, there is no Linux
driver for it. I've got a Compaq R3000z which has the Broadcom in it and
I've been able to make it work with Ndiswrapper so I expect you'll be able
to do the same. My laptop has an Nvidia graphics chip so there are no
problems using Linux because Nvidia does a good job of providing graphics
drivers. Your laptop has ATI graphics in it, I don't know how well those
are supported. |
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Liam Marshall
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 12 Jan 2006
Posts: 1
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| Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:06 am Post subject:
HP Pavilion zd8000
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Am so pissed off with windoze and its vulnerabilities. Have been
running/administering a linux terminal server lab at school for 2 years
now K12LTSP 4.4.x right now.
going to switch my laptop to completely Linux. Just trying to determine
the best distro.
I would like to edit video and use the firewire ports and broadcom
wireless. Anyone know of a known working distro with this laptop?
help greatly appreciated |
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