hardware for laptops
hardware for laptops
Posted Dec 18, 2005 12:10 UTC (Sun) by anton (subscriber, #25547)In reply to: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario by drag
Parent article: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario
I have an Apple iBook G4 12" 1GHz (actually 1066MHz), and I am pretty
happy with it. The graphics is a Radeon Mobility 9200; I had some
trouble getting it to display on external displays, but that works
now. There is no WLAN built-in (with is just as good ad the
Broadcom-based Airport Extreme in newer iBooks), but I have bought a
Netgear MA111 USB stick; there is a free driver for that (prism2_usb
from linux-wlan-ng-0.2.2), but out-of-tree, and when I tried it, it
did not compile with the then-new 2.6.14 kernel (so I'm back to
2.6.9).
Of course, currently sold iBooks are somewhat different, so YMMV.