On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 15:20, Oleg wrote: > On Monday 07 October 2002 06:02 pm, kyi wrote: > > > My laptop is close to "Everything works". The specs are not quite what you > > want but the newer model does. > > > > Toshiba 3005-S307 > > [...] > > Are you referring to Toshiba Sat 5xxx? There's actually a mailing list about > Linux on Toshiba Sat 5005, and people seem to be agreeing that it's a rather > bad laptop for Linux. Pages linked from linux-on-laptops.com seem to say the > same thing. The one issue I'm aware of (I never owned 5xxx) is that one can > not get to BIOS other than through Windows. It's called "legacy-free" > computer. > > I've heard good things about Toshiba walk-in tech support though. > > Oleg
Although it is a legacy free laptop (no ps/2, serial ports) you can still get into the bios to do limited things. It's not one of the nightmare 5xxx series this one is from the 3xxx series. I acually checked out all of the hardware for compatablity before I bought it. - Jayson Garrell
