[wellylug] Ubuntu 8.04 and Acer laptops - compatibility?

Jethro Carr jethro.carr at jethrocarr.com
Thu Sep 18 14:31:05 NZST 2008


On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 14:16 +1200, Carl Turney wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm right on the verge of buying the...
> Acer AS5315-301G12Mi
> or the...
> Acer AS5315-201G08Mi
> from Dick Smith tonight, so I can bring it to Saturday's InstallFest.
> 
> I'm honing in on these because a couple of laptops sort of similar to
> these were found to be pretty compatible with some Ubuntus sort of similar
> to Hardy Heron.
> 
> If any of you have had experience (trying) to install Ubuntu 8.04.1 on one
> of these two models, or can find a compatibility report about such a match
> that ISN'T written in German or French, I'd really appreciate hearing from
> you ASAP.
> 
> Thank you all, very much, for the help you've given.  It is truly
> appreciated.

hi Carl,

From doing a look up online, this model looks like it should work fine.

From reading some foreign language pages about this laptop, I've found
that the wifi chipset is AR5006EG 802.11 b/g Wireless PCI Express
Adapter which is supported under Linux.

Haven't found any information about the modem - all the sites I've seen
about running Linux on this model haven't even tried to use the modem.

regards,
jethro

-- 
Jethro Carr
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