Laptop wireless + video questions
Todd Zullinger
tmz at pobox.com
Wed Mar 29 20:31:40 UTC 2006
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Louis E Garcia II wrote:
> I am looking at a Dell Inspiron E1705 laptop and wondering if anyone
> has FC5 working on it?
I'm still on FC4 at the moment. I'm looking forward to getting FC5 on
it in a week or two.
> 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.
I got an E1705 a month ago and spent the extra $20 or $30 to get the
intel pro/wireless 3945. The drivers and firmware are available[1]
and are working pretty well for me (with WPA2-PSK courtesy of
wpa_supplicant).
> Also is ATI mobility radeon X1400 supported by X? I know 3d is not
> but hopefully 2d is.
That I couldn't tell you. Mine came with an nvidia graphics card as
the upgrade to the stock intel graphics. My how a month changes
things.
> Since this is a duel core processor I would need the smp kernel
> right?
That's what I'm running. I like ripping CD's and watching the CPU's
race to get a chance to run an encoder process. Poor CPU1 doesn't get
a turn all that often. :)
[1] http://ipw3945.sf.net
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