New Laptop
By Ian Scott
Been sometime since I have posted here. Life can take many different twists and turns; sometimes quite unexpected.
I recently purchased a new Dell Studio 17 laptop. I had done some research on it before I purchased it and it seemed that I wouldn’t have too much problem getting everything to work under Linux. My first job was to try to get the Broadcom WiFi card working – but that’s been a bit of a beast to deal with so far. I’ve come across a variety of conflicting reports and what drivers to try and use.
I think I screwed up some things, so rather than keep flogging it, I decided to reinstall OpenSuSe 11.2 on the laptop (keeping the Windows 7 partition as my accountant insists I use QuickBooks Pro – maybe it will work under WINE but I’m not sure yet) and try again.
Hopefully I’ll have wireless working soon! Then on to testing and configuring the other bits and pieces. Right now, I need to boot with ‘x11failsafe’ to see the monitor.
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