I use a Compaq notebook. Here are its details:
Model no: Compaq Presario 2203AL Motherboard: Intel 855 GM with Intel Xtreme 2 graphics Procesor: Intel Pentium M 715 1.5GHz Memory: 256 MB 266 MHz Storage: 30GB serial ATA IDE drive at 5400 rpm Pointing device: Synaptic touchpad Network interface: Internal modem, Realtek RTL 8139C ethernet card, Intel PRO 2100 3B mini PCI adapter wireless LAN card (IEEE 802.11a/b) Micellaneous: IEEE 1394 Firewire port, external monitor (secondary display) port, S-Video output, 2 USB ports. No serial/parallel ports, and no bluetooth/IR support.
Each and every piece of hardware has worked on GNU/Linux, and HP was good enough to give me Linux drivers for the modem and the wireless LAN card. On Fedora systems I have had trouble getting the graphics hardware to perform at its optimum level, although on Ubuntu systems things work fine.
Regards, Debarshi
On 9/25/06, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray debarshi.ray@gmail.com wrote:
I use a Compaq notebook. Here are its details:
Model no: Compaq Presario 2203AL Motherboard: Intel 855 GM with Intel Xtreme 2 graphics Procesor: Intel Pentium M 715 1.5GHz Memory: 256 MB 266 MHz Storage: 30GB serial ATA IDE drive at 5400 rpm Pointing device: Synaptic touchpad Network interface: Internal modem, Realtek RTL 8139C ethernet card, Intel PRO 2100 3B mini PCI adapter wireless LAN card (IEEE 802.11a/b) Micellaneous: IEEE 1394 Firewire port, external monitor (secondary display) port, S-Video output, 2 USB ports. No serial/parallel ports, and no bluetooth/IR support.
Each and every piece of hardware has worked on GNU/Linux, and HP was good enough to give me Linux drivers for the modem and the wireless LAN card. On Fedora systems I have had trouble getting the graphics hardware to perform at its optimum level, although on Ubuntu systems things work fine.
Hey Rishi,
I have a similar notebook - V5000. My wireless lan gets detected out of the box on suse 10.1. But I have a problem with sound. It refuses to play at max volume. Did you face similar a issue?
BTW, my modem is also not detected, but thats not an issue since I don't need it. I understand HP has the drivers on their site.
Regards, Nadeem.
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Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray -
Nadeem M. Khan