Re: laptop and Debian

[Maladrie Julien <julien@maladrie.homelinux.org>]

subscriptions@rdegraaf.nl a écrit :

> On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 00:01:03 +0100
> Gerard Robin <jag.robin18@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Hello,
> > I intend to buy a laptop.
> > I googled to find some information about laptops which support linux Debian
> > and the informations that I got concerned fairly old laptops and no one works
> > fine at 100%.
> > Can someone give me some advices or give me a link to find some informations
> > about recents laptops.
> > I would like that thee things work fine:
> > Xwindow
> > modem
> > ethernet card
> > usb
> > wifi
> > power sleep
> > printer
> > TIA
> > Gérard
> >    
> Hi Gerard,
>
> I got an Dell Inspiron 1150 and Debian Sarge running 'out of the box' (net-install that is). Everything worked, except 'suspend', for which I had to compile a newer kernel with ACPI patch, after that, suspend to disk *and* suspend to memory both work; especially suspend to memory is nice, since the laptop is operational in 2 seconds.
>
> For WiFi, look around for cards that are working under Linux; do not buy Linksys because they change chipssets in the same product line, and that gave me some trouble a couple of years ago.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rob de Graaf
>
>
>  
Hi,

I've actually an iBook and debian unstable, and an acer aspire. All is 
supported. For the wifi, i've choose the dling dwl-g650 which is running 
with madwifi.  It appear that netgear card are fine supported.

JuLieN

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