Will it run well on my hp g60 120us laptop

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Hi all, been trying some different distro’s and always something doesn’t work on my laptop. Here are the specs Product Specifications HP G60-120US Notebook PC - HP Customer Care (United States - English)

I have windows 7 64bit on a c: drive and a d: partition ntfs for files and hopefully sharing files and an unallocated 68 gigs on the end. I also have this dang button to enable/disable my wireless that now I need to click on twice after windows is loaded to get it to enable, it will not before so I need something that can enable that button as I couldn’t find in some of my test either.

Thanks for any opinions.

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If you want to know what I would do is to download the KDE LiveCD from here:

software.opensuse.org: Download openSUSE 11.3

Then boot from the CD, don’t install, but rather run it from the CD and see what works or does not work. Now hopefully someone that knows more about the Laptop can chime in with what they know, but until then, you can play with the CD and see what works with it, before you do an install.

Thank You,

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According to
HP Pavilion G60 [LinLap - Linux Laptop Wiki]
The laptop is compatible with Fedora 12 and Ubuntu 9.10 both which are out of date now. Just use an openSUSE live CD to test it out.

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kbz1960:

so mate,

typing this on MY G60 here
… sadly
our biggest challenge on tux kernels is that 11.3’s defaullt install kernel breaks our ‘ASStheros’ wifi

ie lspci’s output:

07:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)

…that

worked as of 11.2 even our wifi on/off button’s LIGHT AMBER off / BLUE on]

…SO…IF you want opensuse’s GREATness mate I’ve enjoyed more often than not to run my B2B mission critical businesses since SUSE 9.2 now [2004 ;]]… perhaps wait till 11.4 hits in less than 2 months… AND/OR simply install 11.2 for now…

I’m running AND LOVE 11.3 on my G60 WITH BROKEN WIFI but am currently 99.5% USB tethering via my T-Mobile android Samsung Vibrant phone too so; the broken wifi is only inconvenient to me when in wifi hotspots which I can work around via wifi thru my Vibrant ;]]… thus I had overall advantage & motivation to enjoy the KDE DE pros of 11.3 vs 11.2…

***also if on freenode.net AND/OR opensuse.org’s irc community channels chatting mate; we have another G60 ‘alumn’ too… nick iggyx2 is also booting our laptop model…

enjoy thy green gecko’ness mate… sans our 11.3 kernel’s wifi cons…

99.9% of opensuse on our HP laptops = professional joy ;]]

hope this helps… keep in touch… tech9iner

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First off, one big difference between openSUSE 11.2 and 11.3 was the kernel version. I have no problem dropping down to openSUSE 11.2 and did so on my Laptop, primarily due to dual monitor support using the Intel Video chipset. However, it is also possible to upgrade your kernel version in openSUSE 11.3 to say the most recent stable kernel 2.6.37. l for one, decided to stick with openSUSE 11.2 for this platform, but I also have upgraded the kernel to 2.6.37 which works just fine, even on openSUSE 11.2. Of course it works just fine with openSUSE 11.3 as well. Check out message #17 about using SAKC to upgrade your kernel version:

S.A.K.C. - SUSE Automated Kernel Compiler - Version 2.00

Also, in the same thread message #22 has a small utility for SAKC called KLIST, which is helpful when dealing with more than one kernel version. Switching kernels can often help since this is where the hardware drivers exist. There is more to it however than just the kernel. In order to be able to compile a kernel file you need to load the kernel development, base development and C++ development files into your PC. You can do that running YaST / Software / Software Management, select the View button on the top left and select Patterns. Then check off the Base, C++ and Kernel Development tools and allow them to be installed.

Thank You,