Hey guys.

I'd like to know which distribution you would suggest for this laptop I got. It's an HP Compaq 6715s, spec's can be found here.

The only requirements I have is that the installation is easy, so it can find all drivers etc for me and also I'd like fluxbox to work with it too.

Thanks!

Hey David,

I got a similar machine and installed openSUSE 10.2 on it. The installing runs flawlessly [way nicer than Ubuntu's]. The only thing was getting the LAN to work [had to use ndiswrapper and a win2k3 64bit Broadcom57x driver, the b57amd64.inf/sys/cab]. It went nice, just that [dunno why] the eth0 card was recognized as wired wlan0 [ho-hum], and so [after creating the DSL providers for the PPPoe] i gotta edit into etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg_dsl0 out the eth0 [normally assigned] replacing with wlan0 [abnormally given when ndiswrapper slapped the win2k3 64bit driver b57amd64 in the kernel].

Here an url to get the drivers [and some blahs]:

http://www.planetamd64.com/lofiversi...hp?t12432.html

Here how to get and install ndiswrapper:

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/j...,installation/


Remains to see how the real wireless LAN will get to work [when i'll gety time for that].

These were/are the greatest problems: w/lan, so far.

The ATI Radeon 1250 diver is no match, if you haven't find it yet, here it is:

http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Syste...ers-6719.shtml

More to come as things evolve.
Happy tweaking,
Georg