[svlug] Light AMD laptop for linux?

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Daniel Gimpelevich (daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us):

> Marvell Ethernet is cheap, but still better than nVidia. Asus was
> right to replace the ForceD ethernet with it. 

The current Nvidia nForce Professional motherboard chipsets have such
terrible Linux support that I couldn't even PXEboot one of them to do
test installs onto it until I put an Intel Pro/1000 PCI-E card into the
box and shut off the onboard Nvidia NICs.  (I think that was an nForce
Professional 3600 or 3050 -- workstation board, not laptop.)

Even {shudder} Broadcom NICs are a bit better.

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