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Joined: Sep 18, 2008
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Posted Sep 18, 2008 at 4:42:19 AM
Subject: IBM Thinkpad Laptop

Hi erverybody,

I have a IBM thinkpad, pentium 4m at 2.00 GHz, 512mb RAM, 80 Gb HDD, a 1394 Net Adapter and an Intel pro/100 ve network connection.

While i'm not exactly a complete newbie to using linux, the last time I used linux was on this laptop and it was a Mandrake, i don't remember the version, however, i had a problem with the internet card, i couldn't find any drivers whatsoever, so i ended up using windows xp, again.

so my question is, which of the distros would have driver support for that network adapters....
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Reed
Joined Feb 07, 2008
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Posted: Sep 18, 2008 12:42:49 PM
Subject: IBM Thinkpad Laptop

I'm pretty sure the old IBM Thinkpads are well supported these days. This might be helpful:

http://www.linux-laptop.net/ibm.html

Depending on the chipset of your wireless card, you might need proprietary drivers. (For example, you'd need the madwifi drivers for the atheros chipset.) A lot of distros have those preinstalled, more have them in their repositories, so if you have a wired connection when you install, you can get them easy enough.
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zhalikwa
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Posted: Sep 21, 2008 5:14:00 PM
Subject: IBM Thinkpad Laptop

hey... thx a lot... i've finally settled for kubuntu, and so far it's been working pretty good, i'm still trying to figure out something, but that's the fun of it... thx
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Linux_Hawk
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Posted: Sep 26, 2008 1:21:43 PM
Subject: IBM Thinkpad Laptop

zhalika, id also recommend poking around on linuxquestions @http://www.linuaquestions.org and Ubuntu forums @ http;//www.ubuntuforums.org/.
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