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    advise needed for buying HP Envy 17 for ubuntu

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by coughman, Nov 13, 2010.

  1. coughman

    coughman Newbie

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    I am thinking about getting a HP Envy 17 and dual boot it with ubuntu. Anyone has tried it with success? Any gotchas that I need to look out for? Thanks.
     
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    1ceBlu3 Notebook Deity

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    1ceBlu3, Nov 13, 2010
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    Uhg. Broadcom STA (proprietary driver that has lockup/stability issues)... and the new brcm80211 driver has a lockup issue itself with that 43224 adapter. There are different configs for the envy 17 so you should probably post which you are looking at.
     
    ALLurGroceries, Nov 13, 2010
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