lynn wrote:
What it doesn't do is work on laptops. It looks from below that PCLinuxOS is the only one that does. Hello Lynn,
I use OpenSuSE on laptops (in a professional setting) for close to 9 years now (exclusively -- no Windows allowed on any of my machines), and it does work well. But hardware support may be very different from one laptop model to the next. I've had reasonable luck with the Dell's I get at work until now. Also, remember that hardware support may take time. When I first got my current Latitude E6500, the wireless chipset wasn't recognised, and if I remember correctly, the graphics card wasn't properly supported either. Had to manually replace the kernel with a newer one to fix that. After upgrading to 11.1, both problems disappeared. Another point : in my experience, wireless support in OpenSuSE, when used in conjunction with a wired connection, requires some manual manipulation (i.e., the TCP/IP stack won't automatically "switch" to using the wireless upon disconnecting the LAN cable) -- I usually deal with it by manually doing a "ifdown eth0" (that's the wired one) followed by an "ifdown wlan0 / ifup wlan0" (that's the wireless). This issue may be due to the specificities of my setup though. YMMV. Can't comment on PCLinuxOS, never tried it. HTH Cheers. Bye. Ph. A. -- *Philippe Andersson* Unix System Administrator IBA Particle Therapy | Tel: +32-10-475.983 Fax: +32-10-487.707 eMail: pan@iba-group.com http://www.iba-worldwide.com The contents of this e-mail message and any attachments are intended solely for the recipient (s) named above. This communication is intended to be and to remain confidential and may be protected by intellectual property rights. Any use of the information contained herein (including but not limited to, total or partial reproduction, communication or distribution of any form) by persons other than the designated recipient(s) is prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. Ion Beam Applications does not accept liability for any such errors. Thank you for your cooperation.