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No. See these:
<a  rel="nofollow" href="http://www.tuxmobil.org/Mobile-Guide.db/mobile-guide-p2c1s1-centrino.html";>http://www.tuxmobil.org/Mobile-Guide.db/mobile-guide-p2c1s1-centrino.html</a> <a  rel="nofollow" href="http://www.intel.com/support/notebook/centrino/os.htm";>http://www.intel.com/support/notebook/centrino/os.htm</a>
 
&gt; ?
&gt; Intel 82540EM ethernet adaptor

Most likely, but I'm not 100% sure.

&gt; Combo DVD/CDRW - 8X/24X/12X/24X

Yes

&gt; Pentium M processor

Yes (my experience: Fedora or Kernel 2.6)

&gt; ATI M7?

Don't know.

&gt; 
&gt; And this is all the information I can get from gateway.com using the
&gt; serial number from the invoice I was shown.  The laptop is still boxed
&gt; and there is a 3yr onsite/labor/parts tick-tocking away.  

&gt; Anyone here experienced with similiar hardware in Linux?  I'm mostly
&gt; concerned that the wireless card is not going to work well.  Does
&gt; driverloader from linuxant.com work well?  

I kept experiencing freezes.  I gave up debugging it, choosing to use my
PCMCIA Orinico card until Intel releases their drivers.


&gt; I see Intel supplies a
&gt; tarball for that gigabit adaptor, not much worry there.  For the curious
&gt; oh well, lucky I would likely run Slackware 9.1.
&gt; 
&gt; Normally I wouldn't consider buying a 'PC' laptop but since this one is
&gt; boxed and I might be able to get it at half the Invoice Price(laptop was
&gt; won in a lawsuit by the current owner), I'm thinking about jumpin on
&gt; it.  I say 'PC' because I kinda favor the ibooks.  And the ibook would
&gt; be a larger chunk of change.
&gt; 
&gt; If I decide to bite the bullet and buy it, this will be my first laptop.
&gt; So, I'm a little new to these Mobile processors. Heat, power consumption
&gt; etc.  So, I greatly appreciate any input.
&gt; 
&gt; Thanks
&gt; 
&gt; 
&gt; Joe
&gt; 
&gt; 
&gt; 
&gt; Oh, and it comes with a deluxe carrying case. :-)
&gt; 
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