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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
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Subject: [gentoo-user] WiFi on old Thinkpad
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 13:21:59 +0000
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Afternoon all,

I'm reviving a somewhat elderly Thinkpad T61, installing from scratch after 
wiping out the old Windows XP setup. It has an Intel core-2 CPU.

What does the team think is the best way to get WiFi going? Is wpa-supplicant 
a good idea? That's what the handbook recommends, but I think I remember 
something like wicd being better.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.