John You may be better off looking for info on the chipsets rather than the whole notebook. So find some indepth techinal info on the laptop. The main downer is normally the video card. If your distro doesn't support it or it's variants getting the latest xfree86 source and compiling it normally works well.
There are Linux drivers for some winmodems so all is not lost. do a google for them or search the archives. Grant -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
