-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > I've seen two notebook: asus M2410C and acer 291LCi. > 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. > 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?
I have an Acer 291LCi. The 291LCi has a switch on the side to turn the 802.11b card off. I like my 291LCi. There are some ACPI-problems that I haven't gotten around to resolve yet. It can't switch between CRT and LCD when running in ACPI-mode. I recommend the 2.6.1 (or newer) kernel with it, and Bart Samwel's laptop_mode patch. Using laptop_mode, some aggressive hard-drive settings and cpufreq controlled by powernowd I am getting a little over 5hours battery life. The Xserver-version in debian/stable is too old. But installing just the xserver-package from unstable worked fine. All in all, I am very happy with this computer. - -- * GPG-Key: http://evil.gnarf.org/mrbk.pgp A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? - -- http://www.i-hate-computers.demon.co.uk/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFADWyUWYjaxM2wIe4RAkvbAJ9+t8QgmCMrdA+uD7zbfwcS0PeocgCgyVnU rLRjgu1vcQFdqFfvSVd8Rnc= =A0cf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
