Hp Dv6700 Anyone?

Hi, I'm considering buying an HP dv6700z (the z is for Athalon processors), and I was wondering if anyone has had success with suse (or any Linux) on this laptop. There are only a couple of threads on other forums about problems people are having, so I'm hoping that difficulties are more the exception than the rule. The problems that have been revealed in these posts, however, are about pretty big things (wifi and sound). A quick Google search suggests that some people have been able to solve these problems.


Thanks,

LV

look in off topic at screenshots you can see my hp dv600 there similar, so no probs, quicklaunch buttons work though at the beginning unless you config it launches amorok instead of kaffiene or some other video app, I like it this way so I left it, wifi works (get the exe wireless driver from the specs page for your model at hp and extract the proprietary driver my wireless was up in no time at all) if your laptop has a cam, that is the only problem I know of...other than that, thank god I got rid of that hideous vista.....a fast way to get your wifi driver is to install it on a windows machine, I suspect yours has vista or xp, probably vista, get the files from the harrddrive save them to a flash stick, also download the nvidia drivers for you suse version before hand, their will be two...make sure they are for the correct kernel (i.e. default) this will be necessary to get your internet connection going, depending on the version what I did was after installing, I opened firefox, dropped them in there and that calleed the package manager to install them, for some reason I couldn't install them any other way, once that was done, I connected the lan, got smart package manager at labix.org so I wouldn't have to manually install repo after repo in yast (except for nvidia, but that can wait) get the guru one not the opensuse one, it has all the channels configured, unchecked the channels with newer version software and kept guru packman, opensuse, kde all current versions, don't bother with open office.

then updated, also used smart to get ndiswrapper, the app which will need the windows wifi driver to get a blue light....before you get your wifi going you should be already surfing via lan.......

have fun