Hello Everyone,
I am zeroing in on an Acer Laptop for my family's usage. The model is TravelMate 2428NWXCi
http://www.acer.co.in/products/notebooks/tm2420.html
The sole purpose will be internet, email and office suite. I would like to know how this laptop fares with linux and which distro works best on it. I specially plan to make use of the wireless LAN, so does it work out of the box or does it need some hours of sweat and hard work? What are user experiences for this model?
Any information provided will be highly appreciated and thanks for the same in advance.
Regards,
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On 11/30/06, Rony ronbillypop@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I am zeroing in on an Acer Laptop for my family's usage. The model is TravelMate 2428NWXCi
ipw2200 is built into kernels >= 2.6.15 The only thing is you have to get the firmware from http://ipw2200.sf.net
On Thursday 30 November 2006 20:45, Vihang Dudhalkar wrote:
On 11/30/06, Rony ronbillypop@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I am zeroing in on an Acer Laptop for my family's usage. The model is TravelMate 2428NWXCi
ipw2200 is built into kernels >= 2.6.15 The only thing is you have to get the firmware from http://ipw2200.sf.net
Ubuntu 6.06LTS doesn't require you to do anything. Its all plug n play...
Dinesh Joshi wrote:
On Thursday 30 November 2006 20:45, Vihang Dudhalkar wrote:
On 11/30/06, Rony ronbillypop@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I am zeroing in on an Acer Laptop for my family's usage. The model is TravelMate 2428NWXCi
ipw2200 is built into kernels >= 2.6.15 The only thing is you have to get the firmware from http://ipw2200.sf.net
Ubuntu 6.06LTS doesn't require you to do anything. Its all plug n play...
Wow! Now that's something I like. :)
Regards,
Rony. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
On Thursday 30 November 2006 21:32, Rony wrote:
Dinesh Joshi wrote:
On Thursday 30 November 2006 20:45, Vihang Dudhalkar wrote:
On 11/30/06, Rony ronbillypop@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I am zeroing in on an Acer Laptop for my family's usage. The model is TravelMate 2428NWXCi
ipw2200 is built into kernels >= 2.6.15 The only thing is you have to get the firmware from http://ipw2200.sf.net
Ubuntu 6.06LTS doesn't require you to do anything. Its all plug n play...
Wow! Now that's something I like. :)
Yaa...I popped in the Ubuntu CD in my dell laptop and all I had to do was configure the WEP key. It even automatically detected the ESSID! :P It was awesome! :)
On 11/30/06, Dinesh Joshi dinesh.a.joshi@gmail.com wrote:
Ubuntu 6.06LTS doesn't require you to do anything. Its all plug n play...
That means they provide non-free firmware :)
it is a co insidence that I tried ubuntu 6.10 on the same model when I was in delhi just last week. ubuntu and kubuntu 6.10 work out of the box. I believe debian should also work fine. Krishnakant.
Hi,
I have recently bought a Acer 5101. It comes with Window$ XP MediaCenter edition. I almost fought with the shopkeeper that I do not want Window$ but they said this is a special price (it was a bit cheaper) and that they cannot reduce money for Window$ even if I dont opt for it Coming to the point, can anyone suggest which Linux I can use? especially if there is any live cd version? I tried to use Backtrack and slax killbill but none of them could not detect the sound card and wifi.
Vihang Dudhalkar wrote:
On 11/30/06, Rony ronbillypop@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I am zeroing in on an Acer Laptop for my family's usage. The model is TravelMate 2428NWXCi
ipw2200 is built into kernels >= 2.6.15 The only thing is you have to get the firmware from http://ipw2200.sf.net
Thanks. I will go through it in detail.
Regards,
Rony.
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Hello,
I am zeroing in on an Acer Laptop for my family's usage. The model is TravelMate 2428NWXCi
I may be going bit off track here.
What is the pricing of this piece? My friend had bought Compaq V3029 AU some 4 months back. It is running Ubuntu 64 bit edition with no hiccups. 3029 that time had costed 43,250 bucks.
Regards, Peeyush
Peeyush Chomal wrote:
I may be going bit off track here.
What is the pricing of this piece? My friend had bought Compaq V3029 AU some 4 months back. It is running Ubuntu 64 bit edition with no hiccups. 3029 that time had costed 43,250 bucks.
HP and Compaq are a strict no-no. Only IBM/Lenovo or Acer. Lenovo is more pricey with less features. I haven't checked out pricing from my source but on the net its 36K.
Regards,
Rony.
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