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The Toshiba Satelite a70 laptop is mostly compatible with Linux, at least Fedora. The only real big problem I experienced was getting sound to work. With speakers attatched through the sound outlet on the right side, sound worked, but not very well, and the speakers on the laptop I have not yet gotten to work. Also, the Atheros wireless internet card can easily be installed with madwifi, search simeandrews and you'll get some answers.
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 8
Kernel (uname -r):
2.6.17
Distribution:
Debian 3.1 Sarge & Knoppix 5.0
I can confirm that the Toshiba A70 will run Debian 3.1 sarge Linux v2.6.17.
In fact, I am currently running the Knoppix 5.0 Live CD version which I then installed to the HD.
I have also ran Fedora 2 & 3, Knoppix 4 on this laptop in the past.
I have at one time or another had the following pieces of H/W working under one distro or another:
1)Firewire/iLink - which is connected to both a DVD-RW & a no-name HD enclosure (with Oxford chip);
2)Atheros 802.11g - can connect to wireless router using madwifi, but gave up on getting WPA working;
3)internal modem - got it working a while back on Fedora 2 using slmodem(?), haven't tried it lately with Debian, but I think it should work also;
4)sound + speakers - they work under Knoppix 5 (and Debian 3.1), but I had to fool around with drivers and amixer to set the speaker volume. I also recall I had it working under Fedora 2 in the past;
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