Will you be buying this laptop in a BestBuy or CircuitCity? If so take a knoppix cd with you and boot to it and see if everything works. You may not be able to use the networking part, but I guess you could just try pinging 127.0.0.1. I would say go with a laptop with Nvidia for video. Will you be using wireless? I don't have much experience with this but I hear orinocos are a good nic for wireless. I have a Toshiba Tecra M2 from work that I installed gentoo on, the only problems I had were with wireless (ipw2200) but that is now working, the native drivers had just came out when I was trying to get Gentoo on it.
Thanks,
Jonathan
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 15:43:52 -0600, Jeffrey Martin [email protected] wrote:
What should I avoid when looking for a linux compatible laptop? Any other tips for being on the road with linux? Thank You. -Jeff