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Couple questions
Couple questions
Posted Oct 4, 2007 5:50 UTC (Thu) by yodermk (subscriber, #3803)Parent article: Matt Domsch on Linux support at Dell
I'm thinking about getting a 1420N with Ubuntu for my wife, who is becoming a realtor. She (thinks she) wants Windows, but already uses Ubuntu on my laptop without much trouble. This would be a great "common user" test I think.
One thing I'm wondering is how well these things can hibernate and resume reliably. That's one of the few complaints I have with my current setup (ASUS Z84JP) -- while hibernate seems to work fine, usually wireless doesn't come back up. Since my home uses wireless, that means I have to go ahead and do a full reboot. I think that if this didn't work reliably, that would be the biggest disadvantage for my wife, as opposed to a Windows system.
Also, any idea of the timeline of Gutsy Gibbon support? Can we expect it to be preloaded within a few weeks of its release? I may buy the laptop in early November. Related, the current model has 3945 wireless. Will 4695 be introduced at the same time as Gutsy ships with it?
Thanks!
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Couple questions
Posted Oct 4, 2007 12:59 UTC (Thu) by intgr (subscriber, #39733) [Link]
usually wireless doesn't come back up.A temporary hack is to unload the wireless driver module before suspending and re-load it afterwards. You will have to stop the network interface, but at least you won't have to reboot.