I don't have specific info about the laptop in question but, unfortunately, it seems to be very common these days for laptop manufacturers (as well as the manufacturers of the various components) to be just howlingly stupid about Linux support. It's infuriating!
For example, I have Debian running on my HP zd7000 (which I bought for its gloriously huge screen) and the results are mixed. Debian rocks, of course, so the parts that work are working very well, but three key components (video, WLAN and memory-card reader) are either poorly supported or entirely unsupported, all as a direct result of the manufacturers' mindlessly phobic attitudes about publishing their HW specs. Nvidia do at least provide a precompiled module for their GeForce FX Go 5600 graphics controller, which works mostly OK. But the dimwits at Broadcom refuse to even consider suporting the BCM4306 WLAN controller; same for the ENE Technology CB710 card reader, so the only chance for those components to be used with Linux is if I try one of the fake-out hacks like NDIS wrapper, something I've so far not got around to trying. So if you're not having any luck finding info about Linux support for your laptop as a whole then you might try searching for war stories about (lack of) Linux support for the various specfic components included in your model, drawing on other people's experiences with laptops that incorporate them. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss