Comment Re:That's debatable (Score 2, Insightful) 178
This is pretty normal for any brand-new laptop though. It looks as if all the hard stuff works - once the basic system, display and mouse are working, the rest are just devices.
In fact, it's quite probable that some of these devices will already work with the right driver revisions - linux support is actually quite good for most Intel wifi devices:
http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/
and many fingerprint scanners:
http://www.upek.com/support/dl_linux_bsp.asp
I have both of these working fine in Ubuntu 6.06 on a ThinkPad X60 - I'm not sure if the fingerprint scanner is the same, but it's meant to be the same as what's on the Sony sz-140 series.
- Korny
In fact, it's quite probable that some of these devices will already work with the right driver revisions - linux support is actually quite good for most Intel wifi devices:
http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/
and many fingerprint scanners:
http://www.upek.com/support/dl_linux_bsp.asp
I have both of these working fine in Ubuntu 6.06 on a ThinkPad X60 - I'm not sure if the fingerprint scanner is the same, but it's meant to be the same as what's on the Sony sz-140 series.
- Korny
