Hello : I am finally coming to the conclusion that Slackware will be the best distribution for me on my Dell D600 Latitude laptop. I have currently been favouring Kubuntu and have been very happy ---- but the upgrade to Feisty has left me cold : I can't easily get my wifi working. And that p******* me off. I have been through distro install madness period for the last 3 days. Slackware was great but I had an irritating problem

The Synaptics touchpad did not work at all. I used the huge26.s kernel. Was this the right choice? I just don't see why the touchpad failed. I am certain that I am missing the obvious after my personal install-fest The keyboard nipple failed to work too.

In the spirit of adventure, I have reinstalled Feisty until this post is answered. I am also setting up an old P111 to work as my desktop until my notebook is up and running.

Thanks in advance

Try running 'xorgsetup', it may help detect the touchpad.

lol, keyboard nipple ... I like to touch it

Hi,

Did you remember to install the modules for the kernel?

Excellent :: xorgsetup dealt with the resolution problem and the module were certainly needed. I now have Slackware Many thanks.

So. The next targets are : suspend to ram and the mapping of the keyboard

keybindngs: which desktop/windomanager? no matter really, i like this guide, which is pretty much cut&paste for both my dell laptops. though my latitude d820 has no multimedia keys (only volume +/- and mute)

suspend to ram: another guide though I still haven't achiedved this... if you have better luck please let me know. have you looked into suspend to disk yet? IMHO best to compile your own kernel for that..