Re: Acer Extensa 7630EZ - what works and what does not...
Hi Jevel.
I have this laptop as well and I am using it with Archlinux (x86_64) for several weeks now.
While the atheros ar928x based wireless card works out of the box with 2.6.30.x kernels just fine, I did not managed to get this card recognized with any 2.6.31.x kernel. You can find the corresponding bug-report here.
I would be happy if you could provide some feedback there since until now it seemed as if I was the only one experiencing this bug.
Other than that, the notebook pretty much just works, I have to admit though, that I don't plan to use the special keys so I haven't even tested them.
Originally Posted by
jevel
This is a post to try to help both myself and others that want to run Ubuntu on this bargain laptop, as I couldn't find much regarding this hardware, and several critical components does not work.
The most critical functions that do not work out of the box in 9.10 daily is:
- wireless network - the Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
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