On Nov 10, 2007 1:48 PM, Ern jura <exjura at gmail.com> wrote: > Which is the best laptop to run centos on and where can I buy one > without Windows Vista pre loaded cause I will uninstall it any way. > Please tell me the best sites that ship worldwide. Toshiba P105-S6207 Wireless ------- Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02) Works out-of-box including for WPA/EAP networks. Ethernet -------- Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller Works out-of-the-box. Performance seems REALLY good. Video ----- Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller Works out-of-the-box. Flash Card Reader ---------------- Card reader in front of laptop is a "Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)". This doesn't work of of the box on openSUSE 10.2 as they don't include the modules in the default kernel; this supposedly will change with openSUSE 10.3. But sussing out the required incantation and getting it up and running took only a few minutes. Go to http://developer.berlios.de/projects/tifmxx Get tifm-0.6b.tar.bz2 tar xjvf tifm-0.6b.tar.bz2 make make install To start it immediately - modprobe tifm_core modprobe tifm_7xx1 modprobe mmc_core modprobe mmc_block modprobe fm_sd