I have a Compaq Evo NC600 laptop. At the last installfest I installed Slackware 8.1 on it and aside from the modem, everything else, including X worked first time 'out of the box'. It has a Lucent winmodem which I understand are supported, but I've never had a need thus never futzed with it at all. To my suprise, a Win2k installation required the download/config of SEVERAL of the drivers. Chalk one up for Compaq/Slackware BOTH IMHO. -mj And hence AUTHOR spewed: John Hoffoss >>>> rpgoldman at real-time.com 04/17/03 02:09PM >>> > (e.g., modern Toshibas seem very hard to get to work with Linux). > > I have a friend with a brand new Tosh running Slack 8.1, and AFAIK, he > got it up and running the first time without issue...perhaps he's just > that good though, I can't say. > > I have an old Gateway Solo 5150 running Gentoo with only one issue: > sound. Apart from that, it's great. Though this doesn't help at all in a > discussion on new laptops running linux...sorry. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list