Acer Aspire AS7540-1408 a decent fedora (13) laptop?

Rares Aioanei fedora.listen at gmail.com
Sun Apr 25 22:06:34 UTC 2010


On 04/26/2010 12:37 AM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Robert P. J. Day
> <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>  wrote:
>    
>> On Sun, 25 Apr 2010, Rares Aioanei wrote:
>>
>>      
>>>  From what I've seen, it's ok, except the fact that I didn't gather
>>> what brand/type the wi-fi card is; also, you should be up-to-date
>>> with the Radeon-Linux interaction; of course, Google will help.
>>>        
>>   the web page states:
>>
>>   "Acer® InviLink Nplify 802.11b/g/n wireless LAN"
>>
>> i am unfamiliar with that so if anyone else can shed light on that,
>> that would be just ducky.
>>
>> rday
>>      
> My wife's Acer laptop says about the same thing. Her's uses the ath9k
> driver which I was having issues with until the 2.6.32 kernels, now it
> works great.
>
> Richard
>    
I said "I didn't gather..." since I know that Acer do not manufacture
wi-fi cards. Iif it's Atheros, support for it is good in Linux.


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