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From: Sarah D. on 7 Apr 2008 17:37
Hi All,

I'm looking at a Lenovo laptop -- T61 model.  When configuring the
machine, I see several options I'm not familiar with.  What's your
recommendation (based on a Linux (most likely Kubuntu) platform)

       
---------------

 
System expansion slots (pick 1)

PC Card Slot & Express Card Slot  or

PC Card Slot & Smart Card Slot


----------------

       
 
Wireless cards

ThinkPad 11a/b/g Wi-Fi wireless LAN Mini-PCIe US/EMEA/LA/ANZ  or

Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG  or

Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN (supporting Centrino Pro)
[Lenovo recommended]


-----------------

       
 
Bluetooth


No Bluetooth  or

Integrated Bluetooth PAN [Lenovo recommended]


(Do you folks use bluetooth?)


-----------------

       
 
Integrated wireless WAN


No WWAN  or

Integrated Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) [$0.00]  
       

(I've never used wireless -- good, bad or ugly?)


 
------------------



Wireless Personal Area Network


None  or

UltraWide Band (UWB)


(Is this useful and practical? Security problems?)












From: Dances With Crows on 7 Apr 2008 17:58
Sarah D. staggered into the Black Sun and said:

There are odd non-breaking spaces in your post. Fix your NNTP client so
those don't get inserted.

> I'm looking at a Lenovo T61. What's your recommendation [for these
> hardware choices]?
>
> PC Card Slot & Express Card Slot or
> PC Card Slot & Smart Card Slot

IIRC, Express Card is the successor to PCMCIA, so that's what I'd choose
here.

> ThinkPad 11a/b/g Wi-Fi wireless LAN Mini-PCIe US/EMEA/LA/ANZ or
> Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG or
> Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN

Again IIRC, the 3945 is better-supported than the 4965. The 2200 works
really well, but they're not making it anymore.

> No Bluetooth or Integrated Bluetooth PAN (Do you folks use bluetooth?)

I believe these things appear as USB devices in the general case.
They're fairly well-supported, much more so than random 802.11 cards.
I've used it a couple of times to pull pictures from people's cell
phones, but it's not insanely useful to me otherwise.

> No WWAN or Integrated Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) [$0.00]
> (I've never used wireless -- good, bad or ugly?)

This is something different than ordinary 802.11, which is what most
non-techies mean when they say "wireless". I have no idea about
whatever this "WWAN" thing is supposed to be.

Most 802.11 cards have no specs, so getting them working can be a
complete PITA. The solution for 802.11 is to use something Intel's made
(2100, 2200, 3945, 4965) where modules exist, or use something supported
by the madwifi modules, or use an Orinoco Gold card. Also, some of the
GUI utilities for working with 802.11 are ... less than totally awesome.

> Wireless Personal Area Network
> None or UltraWide Band (UWB)
> (Is this useful and practical? Security problems?)

Never heard of this until now. What is this supposed to do that
Bluetooth and 802.11 don't do?

--
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--MegaHAL, trained on random gibberish
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From: Måns Rullgård on 7 Apr 2008 18:22
Dances With Crows <danceswithcrows(a)usa.net> writes:

> Sarah D. staggered into the Black Sun and said:
>
>> No WWAN or Integrated Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) [$0.00]
>> (I've never used wireless -- good, bad or ugly?)
>
> This is something different than ordinary 802.11, which is what most
> non-techies mean when they say "wireless". I have no idea about
> whatever this "WWAN" thing is supposed to be.

It's probably a UMTS modem or something similar. If it is, a modern
mobile phone can be used just as easily through a USB or Bluetooth
connection.

>> Wireless Personal Area Network
>> None or UltraWide Band (UWB)
>> (Is this useful and practical? Security problems?)
>
> Never heard of this until now. What is this supposed to do that
> Bluetooth and 802.11 don't do?

Probably nothing but stuff patent money in somebody else's pockets.

--
M�ns Rullg�rd
mans(a)mansr.com
From: General Schvantzkopf on 7 Apr 2008 19:48
On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:37:22 -0500, Sarah D. wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm looking at a Lenovo laptop -- T61 model.  When configuring the
> machine, I see several options I'm not familiar with.  What's your
> recommendation (based on a Linux (most likely Kubuntu) platform)
>
>
> ---------------
>
>
> System expansion slots (pick 1)
>
> PC Card Slot & Express Card Slot  or
>
> PC Card Slot & Smart Card Slot
>
>
> ----------------
>
>
>        
> Wireless cards
>
> ThinkPad 11a/b/g Wi-Fi wireless LAN Mini-PCIe US/EMEA/LA/ANZ  or
>
> Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG  or
>
> Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN (supporting Centrino Pro) [Lenovo
> recommended]
>
>
> -----------------
>
>
>        
> Bluetooth
>
>
> No Bluetooth  or
>
> Integrated Bluetooth PAN [Lenovo recommended]
>
>
> (Do you folks use bluetooth?)
>
>
> -----------------
>
>
>        
> Integrated wireless WAN
>
>
> No WWAN  or
>
> Integrated Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) [$0.00]
>        
>        
> (I've never used wireless -- good, bad or ugly?)
>
>
>
> ------------------
>
>
>
> Wireless Personal Area Network
>
>
> None  or
>
> UltraWide Band (UWB)
>
>
> (Is this useful and practical? Security problems?)

That Laptop is available with SUSE so if you want to make sure all of the
options that you pick are Linux compatible you should pick the SUSE
version and then select the options from the ones they give you fro the
SUSE version.
From: Sarah D. on 7 Apr 2008 20:42
General Schvantzkopf wrote:

>
> That Laptop is available with SUSE so if you want to make sure all
> of the options that you pick are Linux compatible you should pick
> the SUSE version and then select the options from the ones they give
> you fro the SUSE version.


The T61 with Linux has an integrated Intel GMA X3100 GM965 video card
that shares system memory. That seems like a real poor choice to me.

I thought I would order the 15" screen with the NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M
(128MB) and Windows XP. That way I could partition the disk and dual
boot the beast into Kubuntu.

I went to the Nvidia website but it does not look like they have a
Linux driver for the Quadro NVS 140M. Are there any other drivers
available -- besides Vesa?















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