List of Successful Laptops

knoppix 3.4 works nice on my Laptop which is HP Pavilion ze5375us. It uses VESA mode(1024X768) for X since my laptop has a Radeon IGP 340M graphics chipset.
Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller which worked right out of the box.(Mine is a DSL connection)
Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device works wonderfully well. Far better than the existing Windows XP home installation.
Soft keys for Num pad, LCD brightness works excellent in 3.4.
The onboard Wireless LAN(Harris Semiconductor Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset) works well to. Not sure about the onboard Modem which is a ALi Corporation Intel 537 [M5457 AC-Link Modem]

Overall a very excited Knoppix user. I have recommended that to a number of my friends.
Good luck.

I took a Knoppix 3.3 CD and a Kanotix Bug Hunter CD down to the local Circuit City on Friday. After deciding which laptop I was interested in (HP Pavilion zv5120us), I convinced the sales associate to let me reboot it with the Knoppix CD in it. Knoppix booted up flawlessly. :D The sales associate was quite impressed and started asking questions. He even jotted www.knoppix.net down on his hand!

Long story short, I repartitioned the HD to give WinXP 20G and Linux 20G, did a HD install from the Kanotix CD, and am currently running apt-get upgrade. The only issues I've had so far are:

1. Sound worked fine when running from the Kanotix CD, but didn't work after the HD install. After about 20 minutes of tweaking, I've got sound working.

2. X is running at 1024x768. I suspect I'll need to install drivers for the ATI Mobility™ Radeon™ 9000 IGP video card to get the preferred 1280x800 resolution out of it.

3. Need to be able to play DVD's in the DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo drive. I haven't investigated this one much.

I haven't tested the built-in wireless, but the onboard LAN card is working fine.

Later,

BR

Knoppix 3.3 with HD install on a Sony Vaio PCG-GRT100

Intel P4 2.8
NIVIDA gforce4 420 Go Sony onboard video card
512 megs RAM
SigmaTel Major-C onboard sound card
Linksys WPC54G Wireless Card
USB Floppy Drive

NIVIDA drivers installed for graphics card 1024x768 24 bit color

ndiswrapper 0.6 installed for WPC54G Linksys Wireless Card

Sound doesen't work... Still trying to figure that one out. Locks up
knoppix when sound is played.

Cheatcodes at startup: noapic nosound

So far so good.... Love it !!!!! 8)

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5/10/2004
HOORAY I have been able to get the latest Knoppix 3.4 running on my Compaq Presario 2170CA using the following:

linux26 acpi=off noscsi
I am left with two problems.
1 - I must use the power button to turn off the machine. ( further reading indicates adding noacpi to the startup line will fix this)
2 - My USR 5410 wirless network card is not supported. (not a laptop issue but just though I'd mention it.)

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I have run 3.2 and 3.3 on my Compaq Presario 2170CA.
It has an AMD Athlon 2200XP running at 1.8Ghz.
Everything works now however I did have problems as follows.
Compaq has chosen to encapsulate power management inside the Windows XP supplied with the machine. As a result, when initially running 3.2, my laptop got very hot. This was because the fan speed control was missing and on power-up the fan speed is set to slow or off.
Compaq was very evasive about the problem until I noticed the same thing happened if I put a blank floppy in and turned the unit on.
A subsequent email to compaq generated a request to update the bios.
The updated bios now causes the machine to start with the fan on medium/high speed which is good but now the 3.2 would not boot.
I then tried 3.3 which did boot almost perfectly. The exception was with the ethernet adapter. It was necessary to restart network support to get it to work whereas previously, it came up during boot.
The latest version 3.4CT of Knoppix has resolved this issue when the 2.4x kernel is booted.
The Knoppix26 option (or any 2.6kernel option) does not boot but then this isn't the official release any.

Knoppix worked so well from CD that I installed it on the hard drive on my Thinkpad T-22 along with my XP Home Edition. I also installed it to the hard drive on my PC. I boot it from floppy because it was already dual boot running XP and RedHat. I find myself booting from the floppy a lot of the time.

sony vaio fx601
knoppix 3.4
kernel 2.6.4

modem worked for kernel 2.5, but stopped working with the new kernel-module-handling (linuxant würg-modem) .
I stopped investigating on this because I changed to adsl, which was a very easy install!

Using sound and modem has been problematic with 2.5.0-kernel. Since I seldom use sound I didn't configure it with the new kernel.

APM and ACPI don't work as expected, but this might be an issue of lazy manual reading.
On Page 6, a vaio-user claims to use it successful - well I might ask him what he did.

Due to missing hardware I never tested the firewire-possibilities of this notebook.

Setting up my printer (canon bjc3000) has always been a problem with linux, since canon doesn't support linux. Together with turboprint it now works fine. (parallel-port and usb).

My main tasks are running eclipse ( -3.0.0-gtk-M8) which works fine, and java-1.5.beta (fine too).

dsl: arcor-dsl-speed-modem 100
logitech usb-optical-wheel-mouse
eth0: rtl-8139

Code:

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00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP]
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1a)
00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1a)
00:07.4 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)
00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
00:07.6 Communication controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. Intel 537 [AC97 Modem] (rev 30)
00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420
00:0a.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420
00:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV26 IEEE-1394 Controller (Link)
00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64)

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Originally Posted by false-hopes

Realtek WLAN card (Atheros based, I had to do a ton of messing around to get it to work, ended up with the Linuxant Driver Loader because madwifi and NDISwrapper didn't work.)
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I have been able to get Knoppix 3.3 working on a Dell Inspiron 8000, but the wireless card (d-Link) does not work. Is there anywhere I can get a copy of Knoppix with Linuxant Driver Loader? (I don't know how to remaster a cd, linux newbie).

thanks
Andrej

Benq Joybook 8100

- Runs Knoppix 3.3
- Runs Knoppix 3.4 (using the cheatcode knoppix acpi=off)

I still have yet to get my Centrino wireless running with either versions. If anyone is having any better luck, mail me at [email protected]. It would be apprecited.

Successful CD boot:

KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN.iso

Compaq Presario 2100 Series
1.4G AMD Athlon XP-M
256M Ram (shared with vga to 192M)
30G HD, built in floppy, usb, firewire, etc

With no command line the screen goes blank immeadiately after the initail boot screen.
To boot properly, use one of the following command lines:

knoppix acpi=off noscsi
knoppix26 acpi=off noscsi

acpi causes initial blank screen/no boot.
scsi probe must be disabled to avoid is seg faulting.

KNOPPIX ROCKS!

James

Working setup
IBM ThinkPad R40 2897 - Pentium M 1.4 GHz - RAM 256 MB - HD 20 GB - CD-RW / DVD - Mdm - LAN EN, Fast EN, 802.11b - 14.1" TFT

It has the builtin centrino 802.11b wireless. It worked perfectly. All I had to do to get it to work was type in

Code:

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iwconfing eth0 essid "myessid"

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and then run the network card configuration