[clue-tech] Acer Aspire AS6530-5195 laptop at NewEgg

[mike havlicek]

I have an Aspire 5050-3371 from that I picked up at a Wal-Mart. This model has a Broadcom wireless LAN that was notoriously unsupported on SuSE and RedHat distributed kernels as of around March 2007. (I rarely run Linux on this machine) . The wired LAN is a Realtek RTL8139/810x which can be supported on Linux. I could not get RHEL 4 64bit to run on it. (Novell)SuSE 64 bit worked ok (except the wireless).


-Mike


--- On Sun, 12/7/08, dennisjperkins at comcast.net <dennisjperkins at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: dennisjperkins at comcast.net <dennisjperkins at comcast.net>
> Subject: [clue-tech] Acer Aspire AS6530-5195 laptop at NewEgg
> To: "CLUE tech" <clue-tech at cluedenver.org>
> Date: Sunday, December 7, 2008, 11:18 AM
> How good are Acer laptops?  Newegg has a good deal on one
> for $549.
> 
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834115524
> 
> I've tried to find better specs on it.  Acer
> doesn't have anything on its website.  What LAN and
> wireless chips does it use?  What sound chips?  What support
> chips does it use? 
> 
> I haven't found anything posted about installing Linux
> on it either.
> 
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