I’ve been in search of a new laptop. One of the things I wanted was linux as the primary boot OS with windows as either a dual boot or a VM.
In my search for the appropriate configuration I’ve played with Ubuntu 10.04 Long Term Support release. It fixes most of my problems with earlier releases, except when the laptop wakes up from lid closing, it refuses to not only connect to wireless networks, it tells me there is no wireless devices. At this point the light that tells you your wireless is off/on, is stuck at on, and can’t be changed.
I’m looking into possible solutions. Many people in the know say that open Suse has much better support for laptops, including lid closing. I have to get this solved ASAP, I’ll update this post with my findings.
UPDATE: It turns out to be a network driver issue with this model of hardware. If you are looking at a machine with Atheros networking, just don’t. Also if you don’t have a sufficient swap file suspend and hibernate get even weirder. Maybe I’m just a newb on how hibernate/suspend work but that was news to me that having a swap file, larger than your ram was required.