The Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptops

> Debian Lenny (unstable)

> Your editor chose to perform this experiment with a mid-May Debian Lenny
> testing release, rather than the aging stable distribution. That installed
> a system with a 2.6.22 kernel which, of course, has no ath5k driver. So no
> wireless on the X31 for Debian users - at least, not without installing
> the proprietary MadWifi module. Unsurprisingly, the Debian installer did
> not offer MadWifi as an option.

Lenny is currently based on 2.6.24 with an ath5k backport. Newer ath5k is found in unstable
with 2.6.25 Linux images.

The current daily images of Lenny are based on 2.6.24.
-> http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

The mid may image can only be an older Beta 1 installer.