Anybody know/has experience with putting Linux on a Dell Latitude 110L laptop? We are going to use Open SUSE 11, anybody know whether it will find all the drivers, particularly the wireless? These laptops are approximately 5 years old. I would guess they would be ok, but will they need anything such as firmware for the wireless to work?

All help is greatly appreciated,
C_MAN

I have archlinux running nicely on a latitude C600, a bit older than what you have. Very happy with the way the old brick runs, even got direct rendering of graphics. (Dual booting with WinXP which is a pig, nearly ready to ditch it.)


Wireless? Well that depends upon the chipset, do a google and see what you find. If the worst comes to the worst you can always get a usb wireless interface - cheap and handy.

Try looking at linux-laptop
for more info on your model.

Suse? ... hmmm maybe a little bloated for an 5yo box.


EDIT out of curiosity I had a look here and here and found that your wireless chipset should be well supported

Thanks, I am trying it now to see if it works.