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[Matthew Saltzman]

On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, R. G. Newbury wrote:

> As to laptops, I have had a great longterm relationship with IBM Thinkpads 
> going back at least 12 years for hardware and 4 years for Linux. Admittedly 
> the button as mouse is a learned thing: personally I had the scratchpad mouse 
> and have it turned off on my T40. The T40, like its predecessors, the 600 and 
> 600E found all of the hardware except for the usual modem problems. The Wave 
> modem in the 600's was always problematic. The modem in the T40 does work 
> with slmodem but I don't use it anyway.
> The Cisco Aironet 350 wireless card is flakey about connecting with WEP and I 
> will probably replace is with an Intel 2200BG card. Otherwise, the T40 rocks 
> and I suspect that ALL of the Thinkpads will do the same.

Just to repeat one warning:  You *must* get the IBM/Lenovo official, 
branded IPW2200.  The BIOS will refuse to enable generic ones.  Works 
pretty well though.  The IPW driver seems to be more stable than the Cisco 
one.

-- 
 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs