Ubuntu Edgy & Laptop Compatibility

[John Dangler]

On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 14:17 +0100, Severin Schoepke wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I think most laptops work well. I use Edgy on my (not so new) Dell 
> Inspiron 8600 without any problems, everything works (WLAN, suspend, 
> hibernate, Speedstep).
Severin~
I have the same laptop, and am currently running Dapper on it.  Did you,
by any chance get wireless to work with a static IP address ?  It's the
only thing so far I haven't able to resolve.

Thanks for any suggestions you may have.

John
> 
> You'll find a lot of reports here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam
> 
> HTH, Severin
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> Donald Iddings schrieb:
> > have edgy on a desktop pc I built myself & like it lots, no
> > compatibility issues. Thinking about purchasing a laptop pc to install
> > same, no dual boot just format for ubuntu 6.10 & install. researching
> > hardware compatibility looks like either IBM T model all Intel, or a Mac
> > notebook which is now all Intel may work best, I already checked the
> > ubuntu notebook compatibility but difficult to make heads or tails out
> > of it? Most research on this subject that proved of any value was
> > googled. Anybody got any other suggestions?
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