On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 06:46:26PM +0100, Ottavio Campana wrote: > I'm looking for a new notebook, for the one I used untill some days ago > is now broken and it costs too much to repair. > > So I need to find a new one which can run debian on it. > > I'm interested on a centrino based notebook, for everyone says that I > can get a longer autonomy. On the other side I wouldn't give out too > much money for a notebook. > > I've seen two notebook: asus M2410C and acer 291LCi. During my last job my employer provided an Asus M2400N (~1200EUR). The sarge netinst installed like charm and I had up to 6h of battery life. > does anyone of you have got one of these laptop? Are they fully > supported by linux? I can ignore the winmodem, I don't need it. And for > the network adapter I can use ndiswrapper and wait for te driver that > intel is developing. The e100 driver works, for WLAN you have to use the NDISwrapper but I never tried it. > I'd like to know one thing about the built in wifi card: can linux turn > it off? I mean, if I don't use the wireless network, can I shut it down > so that it doesn't comsume the battery? No experience on this, 6 hours are good enough for me :) Sorry, I didn't investigate further, I just bought a Vaio PCG-Z1RMP (1400x1050, keyboard fitting my fingers). HTH . Siggy
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