Laptop wireless + video questions

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Louis E Garcia II wrote:

>>> I am looking at a Dell Inspiron E1705 laptop and wondering if anyone has
>>> FC5 working on it? The Dell Wireless 1390 802.11g is a broadcom 4311
>>> chip, I could not get a definitive answer if the bcm43xx driver can
>>> drive it from their mailing list. Also is ATI mobility radeon X1400
>>> supported by X? I know 3d is not but hopefully 2d is.
>>>
>>> Since this is a duel core processor I would need the smp kernel right?
>>>
>>> Thanks, --Louis
>
>> If it's a dell you can get it with the intel pro wireless 2915 or 3945
>> as well, and it's worth it.
>
> It is available with intel wireless 3945 but that requires separate drivers
> from sourceforge. I am hoping the dell wireless works out of the box. Why
> is intel wireless better then broadcom?

it has an opensource driver.

> The main question is the video. If the ATI X1400 is not supported then this
> laptop is not for me.
>
> -Louis
>
>
>

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