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Last updated: 6 February 2006
General Hardware Specifications of Acer Aspire 5002WLCi, part number LX.A5105.322:
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Hardware Components |
Status under Linux |
Notes |
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Mobile AMD Turion 64 ML-30 on Lugano M motherboard |
Works |
No special procedure required during installation. |
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15.4 inch Acer CrystalBrite WXGA TFT Display |
Works |
Select Generic LCD and 1280x800 resolution in Installer |
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SiS M760X |
Works |
Nothing special required |
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512 MB of DDR RAM |
Works |
No special procedure required during installation |
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60 GB ATA-7 Hitachi 2.5 inch 4200 RPM |
Works |
No special procedure required during installation |
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No Floppy Drive |
N/A |
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SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91) |
Works |
No special procedure required during installation |
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Internal 56k Modem |
Don’t know |
Haven’t bothered to try yet. |
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CD-ROM/CD-W Drive with DVD-R |
Works |
No special procedure required during installation |
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Internal Broadcom 4318 wireless |
Works |
Not recognized by default distribution, but ndiswrapper v1.7 and MS-Windows 64bit driver from Acer recognize it after installation. The front panel button embedded lamp indicates network activity. The button also enables and disables the device. Thanks to LarryJ for some valuable input. |
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14.8 Volt, 4400 mAh Sanyo Lithium-Ion Battery |
Works |
No special procedure required during installation. |
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[SiS] Sound Controller (rev a0) |
Works |
No special procedure required during installation. |
This laptop is operating under Kernel version 2.6.14-1.1656_FC4
Basic Installation of [Linux Distribution]:
Why to use Fedora Core 4? It’s not MS-Windows, it works, it costs no up-front dollars.
Obtaining Fedora Core 4? From fedora.redhat.com
Installing? Boot the first CD and sometimes add “noprobe” and “noacpi” to the kernel arguments.
Post-Install modifications/tweaks? Manually add ndiswrapper and Broadcom driver.
Setting up additional features for [Linux Distribution]
Getting Suspend-to-Disk to operate correctly? I added /etc/acpi/events/shutdown.conf to work with both the Power button and the lid close. It does a normal full shutdown. I ‘m building the swsusp kernel now.
Getting the touchpad to operate as more than a PS/2 mouse? Touchpad works fine as normal pointing device.
Unresolved issues
None at the moment.
Configuration Files
/etc/acpi/events/shutdown.conf
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg.wlan0
/etc/modprobe.conf
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