On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 14:57:43 -0600 (CST), Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Jeff Nelson wrote: >> I'm quickly coming to the conclusion that all of these distributions >> suffer from a common problem: they don't expect people to run them on >> laptops. > Humm... did you try Lycoris? www.lycoris.com and www.lycoris.org I know they have a tablet edidtion..... might be worth a try. > I wouldn't say that. > > Many distributions run just fine on laptops; it just sounds like your > laptop happens to have bleeding-edge hardware. Bleeding-edge hardware > support for laptop stuff always seems to take longer than the desktop > equivilents, probably because many people aren't using it yet. > > ACPI's a whole different beast - most problems with APCI are due to the > hardware vendor tweaking their APCI tables for Windows, and the Linux > ACPI > guys then have to work around the problems that are introduced by those > hacks. IF your laptop followed the ACPI specification 100%, chances are > it'd work just fine under Linux. Again, it'll take a bit for your laptop > to be supported, and if it's not a really common model, it may not be > supported for quite some time (if ever). > > As far as your wireless card goes, it's most likely going to be one of > the > cards that there are no standard Linux drivers for. If that's the case, > you may be able to use the Windows driver loader from: > > http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/ > > to get it working. If you can provide the output of /sbin/lspci, we may > be > able to tell you what kind of card it is. > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list