Re: [opensuse] SUSE certified laptop

On Thursday 29 March 2007 09:04, BRUCE STANLEY wrote:
--- Teruel de Campo MD <chusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If you really need a laptop with everything ready to go in linux another
approach is to get it from
http://www.emperorlinux.com/
Those guys do a great job. They have a very well written manual that if
you are new to linux will save hours of work. They have a good support.
So if you get a Lenovo X-60 with suse install you know it will work.
The first I got from them I was new to linux, I need it for business, I
had to give a lecture and 2 days before traveling came with all
installed. I just loaded the presentation and I went. All went perfect.
So getting a laptop with linux is not a problem.

-=terry(Denver)=-

Do they have their people who can write device drivers?
That is what would be needed to get a 56k modem to work.That is not the
issue.

Notebooks now because of cost are using WinModems.

Unfortunately they seem to redesign WinModems with the wind each one using a
different chip set. Developers who are capable of writing WinModems which of
course are software all have T1 of T2 lines and are not interested in
antiquated ISP connection systems like 56k modem connections. This leaves a
void in WindModems with some working and some not. Here is were it really
gets screwey as you can take two different laptops each with the same
features manufactured by the same manufacture under the same part number and
get two different Winmodems one of which will work and one which will not
since of course they have different chipsets in them requiring different
Winmodems. The only safe course is to replace thew Winmodem with a real modem
which means of course that you will have to plug it into a expansion slot.

Best thing is get on the BB for the particular laptop and ascertain there what
hardware will and will not work. The one for Thinkpads was posted in a
previous posting today in this thread and since it is difficult to find I
would suggest you look there to subscribe.

I was under the impression that Emperor Linux was just
an OEM type integrator.


People seed to forget that laptops are used on the road
and sometimes you only have access to the Internet via
dial-up.

Thus, a laptop without a modem is somewhat useless on the road.

I have even triead a fully hardware Zonet PCMCIA modem
with various distros on my Thinkpad T-41 and can not
get it to work.
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