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ASUS M6700Ne
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0 4819 10-08-2004
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Description: Pentium M (dothan) 1.5 GHz
512 MB RAM
60 GB 5400rpm HD
15,4" widescreen, 1280x800
ATI Radeon-Mobility 9700 64MB
Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit LAN
V.92 modem
Intel PRO/2200BG wireless NIC
SD/MMC card reader
DVD/CDRW combo drive
USB2 and Firewire

Impression:
Very well put together laptop, I really recommend it! Works well width linux and windows. I use debian sarge (2.6.8.1). Almost dead-quiet when fans are off. 1 dead pixel on screen, acceptable. 2.75 kg = very good. Battry lasts about 4 hours. Buggy BIOS makes it difficult to read battery status from Linux. There seems to be workarounds for this.

Video:
I use the radeon driver that comes with the vanilla kernel, it works flawlessly. I've read here and there that you can download better drivers from ATI, but I havn't tried it. I just entered the 1280x800 in XFConfig-4 file, and voila! I've had no problems in any programs with the wide resolution format.

Sound:
I use OSS drivers that comes with the kernel, Works fine (better that windows actually), mixer also works fine. I tried ALSA, it compiled but I heard nothing. Probably my fault, I guess if you really giv it a go it will work.

CD/DVD:
Connected via /dev/hdc = no problems.

USB:
v2.6 biult-in USB support, works fine.

Network:
The broadcom NetXtreme controller can use the Tigon3 (T3) driver in the linux kernel (2.4 and 2.6). There's driver to download and path into kernel also.
The Intel PRO/2200BG wireless adapter works as of sep 2004 (drivers are under development). Still in beta right now, but works fine. Compile them as module, otherwise firmware loading fails at boot. There's good info about this in the README file.

Modem:
I don't use it, so I don't know. It's a AC97 modem from Intel, so chanses are good to get it working.

PCMCIA:
Worked right away, haven't touched anything.

SD/MMC card reader:
Seems to be connected via PCMCIA, but I haven't got it to work, and few seems to have succeded.

IR:
Haven't tested.

TV-out:
Havn't tested.
Keywords: asus notebook laptop m6 m6700n m6700ne widescreen wireless
/sbin/lspci output: 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 21)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 21)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB 2.0 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 83)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DBM LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DBM (ICH4) Ultra ATA Storage Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]
0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5788 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)
0000:02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ac)
0000:02:01.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ac)
0000:02:01.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 04)
0000:02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)





  



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