Don't buy HP computers

[allen meyers]

On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 05:44 -0600, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> I have a Presidio CQ50 laptop from HP. I did the necessary moving of 
> partitions around so I could load Ubuntu. I have 8.11 and 9.04Beta 
> installed and running quite well. A problem occurred that kept WiFi from 
> working. The problem is that the wifi hardware is turned off by Vista 
> when you stop it.
> 
>     Contacted HP both by email and on a live chat devise. Both ended 
> with statements that Linux has not been tested on this computer and is 
> therefore not approved by HP.
> 
>     What they were saying is the computer they find the information from 
> has nothing in it about Linux. There is no Linux drivers available.
> 
>     So don't buy HP laptops if you want to use Ubuntu.
> 
> 
> Karl
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> 	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
> 	Linux User
> 	#450462   http://counter.li.org.
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Karl:
Really sorry to hear about this as my experience with bith my HP
notebook and desktop from a support perspective differs from yours and I
have been with HP 10 years.
http://h20331.www2.hp.com/hpsub/cache/286526-0-0-225-121.html

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