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I’ve got a shiny new Asus 5800 laptop, running SuSe linux 8.2 on it.
Most stuff works straight away from the installation DVD. The wireless lan
does not work (its’ a broadcom, and I read somewhere it is not
supported at all under linux) and it is better to turn ACPI off with the
kernel option ‘acpi=off’ at boot, otherwise the machine will
overheat and shutdown.
With some work X and the gigabit network card operate properly.
XF86Config
Forget about using Yast to configurate X, because it makes a mess of it, do
the X configuration manually.
Linksys gigabit ethernet card
The linksys card has to be compiled into the kernel separately, but this is
easily done. Install the ‘kernel sources’ package, go (as uesr
root ) to /usr/src/linux and type ‘make oldconfig’, so that the
current system configuration is represented in the kernel configuration.
Then unzip the linksys install script somewhere (e.g. in /root/) and run
it. The install script takes care of everything for you - it checks system
prerequisites, and compiles the ethernet driver module so it fits with your
kernel.
After compiling the kernel module (you don’t need to reboot like in
Windows :-) ), do ‘modprobe sk98lin’ and ‘ifup
eth0’ and everything should work as usual. At home and everywhere at
clients, I use ‘dhcpcd’ to the rest of my network configuration
for me, so that’s no effort either.
I finally got it to work without overheating. Add ‘acpi=off’
and ‘noapic’ to the grub command line (in /boot/grub/menu.lst)
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More info about this laptop on tuxmobil.org/asus_l5800c.html
and tuxmobil.org/asus.html
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