[ubuntu-uk] Zoostorm laptop at ebuyer.com

[Tyler J. Wagner]

On 2013-01-31 18:46, Paula Graham wrote:
> I've got the i3 version of the Zoostorm laptop - 12.04 installed
> perfectly except wifi chip is a bit of a pain, needs to be hunted down,
> compiled and then recompiled every time the kernel upgrades - native
> driver should be in kernel 3.8. The current driver is a tad flaky, drops
> connection irritatingly.

An important thing to remember when buying laptops is that the wireless
chipset is usual a mini/micro/whatever PCI card and can be swapped out for
something with better support. When I run into a weird/Dell/Broadcom wifi
chipset with bad Linux support, I buy the last-generation Intel chipset on
eBay for £10 and toss the old in a pile somewhere. It's cheaper and easier
than you think it is. Certainly easier than compiling a driver every few weeks.

Tyler

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