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[John Nichel]

C. Hatton Humphrey wrote:
>>   I'm really suppressing the expletives right now and my opinion lately
>> has really plummeted for Toshiba laptops.
> 
> Don't burst my bubble... I just got a brand new Tecra laptop... there
> is a physical switch on the front of mine for wireless.
> 
> Granted I haven't had a chance to do an OS reinsall... too darn busy!
> 

I just got a Satellite P205D, and it has the same switch (Atheros 
802.11a/g/n wireless-LAN).  I went with the Toshiba, because the last 
two I had were Linux friendly.  I've tried RHEL5 and Kubuntu 7.10 with 
unsatisfactory results.  I couldn't get the madwifi drivers to work for 
either distro, but was able to get the wireless working with 
ndiswrapper.  I thought I was good to go until I realized that ndis 
killed USB on the laptop.  Read a few more docs, and recompiled the 
wrapper to disable usb (ndis' usb drivers, from what I understood), but 
there was still no joy.  Work wasn't going to wait around for me to 
tinker with this thing to try to get it working, so I had to put Vista 
back on it.  It's not bad (I'm not an anti-Windows zealot), but I've 
been using Linux as my primary desktop for almost 9 years now, so Vista 
feels a bit strange.

-- 
John C. Nichel IV
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