Sony Vaio FE11S Linux (update)

When I made my first  post about my new latptop, there were still two missing  key hardware drivers  – the nividia driver for the  Nvidia GeForce  Go 7400 and the wireless driver which I didn’t bother to compile by hand (and therefore didn’t mention). I’m happy  to report that both  the graphic card and the wireless driver now work out-of-the-box in ubuntu 6.06 after updating the kernel to the latest version. The graphic card has been working for quite a while (I simply forgot to mention it) – nvidia delivered the drivers on the promised date. The built-in webcam (which I didn’t mention because I had never tried to use) doesn’t work under linux. I don’t think the built-in bluetooth works either though I can’t be sure until I bother to try to use it.

Summary:
I can confirm all the hardware of the Sony Vaio FE11S works perfectly in linux (ubuntu 6.06 fully updated) with the _exception_ of the built-in webcam (NOT SUPPORTED BY LINUX) and the built-in bluetooth (haven’t tried to get it to work).

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