Slackware On My New Laptop

Published on March 30, 2006 By MasonM In Personal Computing

I finally got around to installing Slackware Linux on my new laptop. I had made a point of getting one that I knew the hardware would be Linux compatible so the installation went fairly smoothly.

I did have to spend a little time configuring the system, which is perfectly normal. As Broadcom doesn't provide Linux drivers (shame on them), I used ndiswrapper to utilize the Windows driver for the wireless card, and then wrote a very short boot script to initialize and configure the card during boot.

The Synaptics touchpad simply required installation of the Linux Synaptics driver, which is a piece of cake.

Everything else worked perfectly with a minimum of configuration.

Here's a screenshot of my laptop desktop using the Fluxbox window manager.

Comments

Dr Guy

on Mar 30, 2006

Nice desktop!

MasonM

on Mar 30, 2006

Thanks, I like it. Is my standard desktop on both the laptop and my desktop.

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