On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:32:03 +0100 (BST) "Hans du Plooy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The 6325 has the buggiest ACPI you're likely to encounter - it has exactly > the same bugs as the 6125. There are several ACPI bugs that don't yet > have kernel workarounds. > > Don't buy this! My experience with HP notebooks over the last three years > (even in Windows) with clients has been consistently bad enough that I > feel I need to tell people to avoid it. Rather get an Acer - they cost > about the same and seem to be far better quality hardware and more Linux > friendly. On the other hand, my experience with HP and Compaq notebooks and Linux has been very good. My previous Presario has been used at work, teaching at a local university, Linux meetings and installfests, and the only thing that ever went wrong was the power connector was loose, and I needed a rubber band to make it work. The reason for this was that the notebook fell off a table a couple of times. I have an NX6125 that has also worked well. The only issue I had with it was the wireless (broadcom). 10.2 comes with bcm43xx.ko as the driver, and you need the firmware. The versions of the bcmwl5.sys that I had were incompatible with fwcutter (also part of 10.2). Solution, read the fwcutter docs, download a bcmwl5.sys, run fwcutter to extract the firmware into /lib/firmware, and bcm43xx.ko works fine. I did have some initial growing pains with ndiswrapper when I first got the laptop where I had to run ndiswrapper with the -d option, but after that the wireless was flawless. I have no complaints about Acer, but I do know that HP is a very strong supporter of Linux and has been setting up regional Linux Expertise Centers. -- Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
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