Don't buy HP computers

[Karl F. Larsen]

allen meyers wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 05:44 -0600, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
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>> 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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    Well my problem is a laptop. The thrust of your company in Linux has 
been with your work stations with Red Hat. I was not aware of this and 
the HP people I worked with were not aware of this work it appears.

    I doubt a driver CD for work stations will give me what I need.


Karl


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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