It may have taken me a few hours and some lost hair, but I finally got Linux running (and running well) on my Averatec 3225 Notebook last night.

Kernel support is there for everything in 2.6.8.1, but the two major causes of problems are the Wifi chipset (RaLink’s 2500) and the built-in video (VIA’s S3/Unichrome chipset).

To find out how to get this stuff working decently well, read on.

Andrew Montalenti (aka pixelmonkey, amontalenti) is the co-founder and CTO of Parse.ly, which provides data insights to the web's best publishers. He is also the founder and principal at Aleph Point, Inc., an agile software engineering consulting firm. You can follow him on Twitter or LinkedIn. This entry was posted on Saturday, October 16th, 2004 at 11:14 pm and is filed under Open Source, Technology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.