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

[Mario Guenterberg]

On Mo, Apr 26, 2010 at 01:06:34 +0300, Rares Aioanei wrote:
> 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.

Acer InviLink is a branding for 5 different driver types.
Intel, RaLink and 3 types of Atheros drivers. It seems okay so far. 
The rest of the hw configuration looks good.

Cheers
Mario Guenterberg

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