Today I finally managed to get WLAN to work through SUSE Linux with my HP nx6110 laptop. Although the WLAN controller was detected earlier, it didn't work until I installed the Windows driver from the manufacturer's CD using ndiswrapper.

Not sure which one did the trick - the default kernel device driver for the chipset or the ndiswrapper driver, but it works now so that's all that matters.

I just noticed that I had completed two years at LQ recently (2 years 5 days as of today).

It's been a long journey since I first installed a magazine distro based on RedHat 6.1 to now when I multi-boot 4 distros on my machine (Debian, Gentoo, Arch and Suse) and I have a laptop with Suse as well. Linux has become second nature now. I hardly ever use Windows at all.

I've also made a lot of friends on this forums, had a few flame wars here and there, picked up a few fights...

SUSE Linux is probably the most ideal distro for a laptop. I recently acquired a HP nx6110 laptop and I installed SuSE without a problem. As I had mentioned in my <a href="http://www.linuxquestions.org/reviews/showproduct.php?product=614#review12">SuSE 10 review</a> at LQ recently SUSE is quite a polished professional distro.

I was impressed by the way SuSE autodetected most of the settings required for a laptop including power management as well as USB device...

I have always criticized people who complain about Linux on forums and while I do think that some of them do troll for the sake of trolling, I think I can relate to some of the sufferings of other Linux users which I think we tend to forget once we smooth over all the configuration of the system and get it to work the way we want it.

I recently changed my ISP from a cable provider to a DSL one. Getting it to work has taken me a long time, not because Linux could not get it to work,...