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.
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.
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.
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