electronics high and lows
really digging the new laptop. Thing is really light and small. Got a clean vista partition on there and ubuntu rocking. Both are running really fast and good, cept for wireless in ubuntu. I will get it, but it is taking me a while. The broadcom wifi chip is not very linux friendly.
Got a pretty cool DVD player from woot. It is one of those that can play any type of disk or file and the description said it had a coax out on the back. That was a huge thing for me because of our setup at home. The kitchen TV mirrors whatever is on our living room TV via a coaxial cable that also goes into my PC. Well it was not that kind of coaxial 
It is basically a RCA port for audio. Oh well, with some tinkering I can prob get a switch box or something, but the DVD player is so much better than our old one.
Broadcom chip is definitely not Linux friendly, and probably the one thing that has most kept me from installing any Linuxes on my laptop outside of a VM.
Comment by jschwa — February 1, 2008 @ 2:33 pm
yeah they are bastards. While searching for a laptop I was not going to be limited by just the wireless being friendly. i saw the one I wanted had a broadcom chip and found some info on how to get it to work so figured i was safe. Did not know it was such a pain in the ass though.
Comment by beerorkid — February 1, 2008 @ 2:35 pm
You might want to check HP’s website… I’ve got a dv2125nr from HP, and it ended up dying… there’s a problem with fan control speed in the BIOS. HP lists a bunch of models affected by this, and offer either: 1) a BIOS flash file for those laptops still working, or 2) a free repair for those that are not longer booting…
Check their support website for more info.
Comment by Jordan — September 6, 2008 @ 11:27 pm