thejeremy
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I recently bought an Acer Aspire 5100 laptop and I want to put Linux on it. Here are the specs:
AMD Turion 64 bit 2 GHz CPU
1 GB RAM
ATI Radeon Xpress 1100
80 GB HD
Broadcom 802.11g Wireless Card (BCM4318 AirForce One 54g)
Not bad for $600?
Anyway, I've tried a few distrobutions already (Fedora Core, Kubuntu, Ubuntu) and haven't had much luck setting up the wireless card. FC wouldn't boot at all actually, not sure why...
Needless to say, I haven't really found a distro I'm happy with yet.
What's the best distro to put on a laptop in terms of interfacing a wireless card? Are there any that work out of the box better than others? Has anyone put Linux on their laptop and found a certain distro to work really well?
Any responses are welcome.
AMD Turion 64 bit 2 GHz CPU
1 GB RAM
ATI Radeon Xpress 1100
80 GB HD
Broadcom 802.11g Wireless Card (BCM4318 AirForce One 54g)
Not bad for $600?
Anyway, I've tried a few distrobutions already (Fedora Core, Kubuntu, Ubuntu) and haven't had much luck setting up the wireless card. FC wouldn't boot at all actually, not sure why...
Needless to say, I haven't really found a distro I'm happy with yet.
What's the best distro to put on a laptop in terms of interfacing a wireless card? Are there any that work out of the box better than others? Has anyone put Linux on their laptop and found a certain distro to work really well?
Any responses are welcome.