Re: Laptop for SuSE

From: Malke (malke_at_nospoon.com)
Date: 05/25/04 

Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 17:17:23 GMT

Vicki wrote:

> On Tue, 25 May 2004 22:13:55 +1000, CSN wrote:
>
>> Would anyone care to share their experiences with SuSE 9.0 or 9.1 on
>> a laptop? I am currently running 8.2 on Dell Latitude and planning to
>> get new laptop.
>
> Running 9.0 on a Gateway Solo laptop. Fan cycles as needed or as
> before. I have a Xircom Combo Modem/NIC card. Couldn't tell you if the
> modem part works as I'm on cable. Cable works fine. It's a 500mhz with
> 256mb ram, DVD drive. It run's quite well and I have no complaints at
> all. Just wished I didn't have to use Windoze at work. :(
>
> Vicki
>
> All wiyht. Rho sritched mg kegtops awound?

I've got 9.1 on an IBM Thinkpad X31. It works much better with 9.1 (with
an updated BIOS) because all the acpi stuff is supported. My built-in
IBM 802.11/a/b/g card Just Works where I needed the Linuxant wrapper in
9.0. The ethernet Just Works, too. I don't know about the modem since I
don't use it. The only problems I'm having right now are with Samba,
but that is apparently not machine-specific because lots of other
people are having issues, too.

Bottom line, the Thinkpad runs great with SuSE 9.1 Pro on it; cool and
quiet. It was an easy install.

Malke 

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