List of Successful Laptops

**optic** · 05-28-2003, 12:03 PM

hp pavilion ze4360ea is running

**Icekiss** · 05-31-2003, 08:40 PM

My Knoppix runs on a Siemens Lifebook S-4572.
The wheel of my touchpad doesn't work, and the modem (Lucent WinModem) most probably won't work as well, but everything else works flawless.

**kjkostuk** · 06-01-2003, 01:41 AM

I have run Knoppix on the Compaq 2105CA with some success. If I have a Symobl Spectrum24 WiFi card in it, the boot up stalls out, but other than that this model works fine.

**1Il** · 06-03-2003, 07:04 PM

Sony PCG-GRZ660 seems to work fine. Auto detected the network settings and internet connection right away. Haven't tested any wireless connectivity or cardbus compatibility.

**blixblix** · 06-03-2003, 08:47 PM

I've got my HP pavilion ze4125 running wonderfully under Knoppix.

It's amazing how knoppix got everything up and running without hassle. Well, I did have the prob with my natsemi nic. That was fixed with a quick:

Code:

ifconfig eth0 up

mii-tool -r

netcardconfig

Suse 8.2 did a good job of setting up the hardware too but the viewable desktop was about half the size of the actual screen.

I haven't got the power management going yet which brings battery life to around an hour.

After playing with the fstab file and rebooting the keyboard failed to activate once. I worked around that by repeatedly hitting the TAB button during startup as I had to do to get other distros to recognize it during set up. Don"t know why it works, but it does.

All in all, this is a god-sent for those having probs with their laptop config. And the forum could give Gentoo forums a run for its money one of these days.

Now if I can just get that location bar to work in Mozilla

**stonent** · 06-05-2003, 06:59 AM

Inspiron 4100 1.0Ghz Pentium IIIm
3com 3c920 (3c905c clone)
16MB Radeon Mobility
i810 series audio (830m technically but the driver is the same)

Synaptics touch pad has not worked since Nov/Dec versions of knoppix, even with nowheel. So I have to use an external Logitech Optical Wheel mouse.

**grahamet** · 06-06-2003, 07:24 AM

Sony Vaio fx501

Boots great from CD
Brilliant HD install, great update / upgrade

Only problem seems to be the modem (not a problem for me) which I can not get going (us windows types!)

Sound not as loud as it was under XP.

Now if I could only get Evolution running .............

**mfer** · 06-07-2003, 04:03 PM

Thanks for all the advice.

I bought a Toshiba Satellite 1135, under $800 after rebates.
Knoppix 2003-05-03-en worked in the store.

QTPARTED worked like a dream. As expected, I was unable to get the built-in modem to work. Bought a Hawking PN612 PCMCIA modem which was detected an worked out of the box.

Changed BIOS to try CDboot before HD which boots to Lilo.

**rickenbacherus** · 06-16-2003, 07:03 PM

Knoppix 5-16-03 boots very nicely on a Toshiba 490CDT w/ 160M RAM. It even found the Belkin pcmcia NIC no problem.
Very fast with the Icewm desktop.

**Harry Kuhman** · 06-16-2003, 08:30 PM

HP Pavilion Ze4240, Knoppix booted fine and recognized all hardware.

However, after several weeks of good network connectivity, something changed and suddenly I couldn't get to the network with the default boot.
I suspect it was the Windows XP "security update" that I had put off and finally accepted right before this happened, so far can not prove that. If you're using any notebook, but particularly a HP or Compaq notbook, I urge you to go to Scyld and get the diagnostic for your NIC chip and save a copy of the eeprom settings before you have network problems, so you can recover leter.