Installing Ubuntu 10.10 on Gateway NS-10

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General Hardware Specifications of [Laptop]:

Hardware Components	Status under Linux	Notes
Intel Core I3 U330, 1,20 GHz	Works	No special procedure required during installation.
11.6 (1366x768) TFT Display (LED backlight)	Works out of the box
Integrated graphics	Works out of the box	No xorg config file needed! Backlight works!
3Go	Works
250 GB SATA Hard Drive	Works	Using Gparted, you can re-partition to dual boot with windows 7
Integrated Network Card	Works	Need more test to see if the tg3 driver is OK ("I feel it slow")
Wifi: Broadcom BCM43225	Did not really try yet
3-Cell battery	Works	Did not try battery duration yet
Intel HD Audio	Works (speakers at least, did not try headphone/mic)	No special procedure required
Synaptics touchpad	Works out of the box (tap and scroll area also)	No special procedure required
Integrated Webcam	Works out of the box	Just tested using vlc

No Post-Install modifications/tweaks for now.

Power management features

Suspend-to-ram works great, either directly or by closing the lid
Suspend-to-disk works great also

Unresolved issues (I did not try hard yet! Stay tuned)

Wifi does not work, bluetooth neither, I can't swith them on using the laptop button, but rfkill "sees it". More on this soon I hope.
SD card reader is not detected, more on this soon also I hope (there is a driver for it on the realtek website).

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