If you have had poor experiences with GNU/Linux wifi software in the past, definitely give NetworkManager a shot... it is brilliant -- better than Windows XP's built in wireless manager and better than most of the proprietary ones that get distributed with your network card drivers for Windows too. Ubuntu Feisty handles networking very well, with the configuration set to roaming mode, I can plug my laptop in to my home network and it just works; likewise I can take it out at University and if there is signal it finds the network and connects to it. Its getting pretty seamless. -- Sam On 4/26/07, A. Pagaltzis <pagaltzis(a)gmx.de> wrote:
* Lindsay Druett <lindsay(a)wired.net.nz> [2007-04-26 03:10]:
I've had no issues with either of the IBM Thinkpads I've owned... My current laptop (THINKpad R51) runs Ubuntu 7.04 very nicely. (It always ran Ubuntu straight out of the box.)
Same here: Thinkpad R51e.
The only thing that doesn't is sleep mode – at least not out of the box. I have been lazy and booting Windows mostly because wifi is a hassle in Linux (wifi-radar doesn't want to work well and the GNOME stuff used to suck; gotta give the new network manager a shot) so I never bothered to look into whether sleep mode can be made to work.
Everything else Just Works™, however. Soundcard, ATI graphics, ethernet, wifi, CD writer, all flawless.
Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
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