I have a HP/zv6007 running (openSUSE 10.0) fine! In fact I have one problem... When the battery is almost empty (20% loaded) my laptop freeze! but, you can check laptos in: http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Laptops/HP http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Laptops/Compaq hope this help regards, _________________________________________________________ Lawrence Ferreira AIX, HP-UX and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server Administrator LINUX User (openSUSE-10.0 & SLES9) #271016 LPIC-1 - Linux Certified Professional Jerry Feldman wrote:

I gave my old Compaq Presario laptop to my wife, and I need a new laptop to use for my teaching (I teach Unix, Linux, C, and C++ at a local university) as well as for BLU meetings. My presonal requirements are: Brand: must be HP (or HP/Compaq) OS: SuSE Linux 10.0 or possibly VMWare with SuSE running as the primary OS. Chip: AMD-64 (While I work directly with some Intel people, I want 64-bits on the laptop). Screen size: I prefer 15in or better, but 14in would be ok. Memory - would prefer 1 or 2 GB because I want to be able to run a couple of different distros simultaneously for the courses.

I've looked at the following models: L2000, DV8110US, DV5120 and dv5140.

I've found Linux reviews of the L2000, but not the DV8* or DV5* models, though the DV8110US from eCost seems to have some very good features.

I'm not concerned about installing ndiswrapper for the Broadcom wireless.

Many of the HP Compaq n series business notebooks are officially certified by SuSE, but those notebooks tend to be more expensive, but there are a bunch that are available refurbished or excess new.

On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 09:43 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:

I'm not concerned about installing ndiswrapper for the Broadcom wireless.

Many of the HP Compaq n series business notebooks are officially certified by SuSE, but those notebooks tend to be more expensive, but there are a bunch that are available refurbished or excess new. The nx6125 is, I think, well priced for what you get. I have the ML-34 model (not the newest any more). For price vs. features it outpriced everything else on the market except some cheapo brands that I don't

Maybe I'm just doing something wrong, but I haven't been able to get the ndiswrapper/broadcom combo to bridge with the vmware device, so my virtual machines can't see the rest of the network when I'm on wireless (but they can see each other). trust. I have a 15.1" 1400x1050 display, Radeon X300 graphics (Quake4 capable!), 1GB RAM (it can take 2), DVDRW (+/- and DL), 80GB 5400rpm/8mb disc, firewire, USB2, PCMCIA type II, one of these newer Express card (newer generation PCMCIA type slot), card reader that can read more types of card than I knew exists, onboard gigabit LAN, built in wireles (broadcom, unfortunately, but it can be replaced), fingerprint reader, bluetooth, and, last but not least, 56k modem, all of which is supported. SUSE 10.0 64bit was not entirely happy, but it basically just comes down to version of the kernel and other essentials and their (lack of) support for these newer hardware, but a few updates should sort it out. I'm running gentoo now, newest version of everything, and all is working 100% except skype (which worked 100% in SUSE - go figure). Hope it helps! Hans