Debian on an Acer Aspire 1302LC Laptop

As far as I can tell, everything works on this notebook with Debian/unstable. The only thing I've not tested yet is the modem. I even tried a Netgear MA401 Wlan PCMCIA Card, and it works like a dream.

Configs / Lists

Kernel Config (2.4.20)
XF86Config-4
lilo.conf
List of installed packages

Notes

For burning CDs you need the ide-scsi module (plus generic SCSI support and stuff) in your kernel config. You also need to tell the kernel, which device you use with the ide-scsi module. This is done with the line append="hdc=ide-scsi" in lilo.conf
I added append="noapic" to my lilo.conf too, because the network driver is somewhat buggy. If you copy large files at full bandwith, the network hangs from time to time. The only way to "repair" this is a reboot. Now, since I added this line to lilo.conf everyting works fine, no broken network and it even transfers with more speed than before

It's also a good idea to use the latest stable kernel available - which would be 2.4.20 at the time of this writing. Laptops use the latest technology available, so you need the most current driver.

In my XF86Config-4 note the two mouse input sections. With this configuration I can use my USB mouse and the touchpad at the same time (for a USB mouse to work, you also need USB support in your kernel of course - see my kernel config)

As a laptop user I often switch between static and DHCP network configurations. There are many tools out there, which can handle this quite efficiently. I use switchconf (apt-get install switchconf for Debian users). It's a small and simple script, no overkill.

Links

Although these links are not specifically for ACER Aspire 1302LC, the configs are mostly the same because often the only difference between the models are in CPU Freq. or display size.

Tuxmobil.com
Debian on ACER Aspire 1300XV
ACER Aspire 1300XC and Debian
ACER Aspire 1302XV and Linux


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