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Old August 4th 04, 03:03 AM
General Schvantzkoph
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On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 21:56:19 -0400, Jason Cothran wrote:


"General Schvantzkoph" wrote in message
news | On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 21:24:09 -0400, Jason Cothran wrote:
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| "General Schvantzkoph" wrote in message
| news | | On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 06:29:40 +0000, Randy Howard wrote:
| |
| | In article ,
|
| | says...
| | I'm thinking about getting an HP zv5000z series notebook with an
Athlon
| 64
| | 3400+.
| |
| | Good choice.
| |
| | Does anyone in the NG have one of these, how do you like it?
| |
| | It's very nice, particularly as a portable 64-bit porting platform.
| |
| | Also are there any Linux compatibility problems?
| |
| | It seems to run SuSE 9.1 Pro 64-bit without a hitch. I haven't
| | tried any other distributions.
| |
| | One final question, I vaguely recall reading something about HP
selling
| | systems with a castrated AMD64 that only operated in 32 bit mode.
| |
| | Sounds more like some of the early Intel EM64t "Nocona-ready" boxes
that
| | are technically capable of 64-bit, but being sold with 32-bit CPUs.
| |
| | Does anyone know if the processors in the zv5000z are proper Athlon
| 64s?
| |
| | The HP zv5000 is definitely 64-bit, but it only has one. :-)
| |
| | Only word of caution, DO NOT get the 1900xwhatever display. It's
way
| too
| | fine pitch for a 15.4 panel, even if you have perfect vision. The
| | 1600xwhatever option is much better and $100 less.
| |
| | Is there any support for the Broadcom wireless card? I was under the
| | impression that Broadcom is completely unsupported.
| |
|
| Broadcom provides absolutely 0 support for their wireless cards. They
claim
| it is the manufacturers' responsibilty since they don't make the cards.
As
| of now, there are no 64-bit drivers for the Broadcom card. An email from
| Broadcom:
|
| Hi Jason,
|
| Thank you for contacting us and for your interest in Broadcom
technology.
| Broadcom does not sell products directly to end-users and is unable
offer
| comprehensive support for Broadcom's customers' products. If you are
having
| a particular problem with a Broadcom-based wireless product, please
contact
| the PC or wireless device manufacturer directly for support.
|
| Sincerely,
| Danny Crouch
|

|
| Have you tried the ndiswrapper around the windows driver? How well does it
| work?

It will work if you are running 32-bit Linux, but there are no 64-bit
windows drivers to wrap to 64-bit Linux unfortunately.


Not even beta drivers to go with the beta version of 64 bit XP?