I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the College of William and Mary. I have been using Linux and open source products since ~2000. I have been using Linux on my laptops since 2002. Currently I am using Ubuntu 7.04 on two laptops:

• Dell Inspiron 600M (Intel Pentium M Centrino, 512MB RAM), posted here: LaptopTestingTeam/DellInspiron600m

• Sony PCG-FXA53 (AMD AthlonXP, 512MB RAM)

If you have questions regarding those two laptops, feel free to contact me. I will try to help as much as I can.

Wirawan ( wirawan0 @at@ gmail .dot. com )

Update with Intrepid Ibex (200812)

Below are the list of open issues from using Ubuntu 8.10 with the two laptops above.

Dell Inspiron 600M/Latitude D600

• Locked keys after Fn+Up/Dn brightness control

• Adjustment of brightness via gnome-power-manager (see, eg. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/+source/linux/+bug/285323/comments/47) does not always work especially if the laptop is just turned on from suspend. Don't know why yet.

• Autodetect-wireless still doesn't work with /etc/network/interfaces because the new hal suspend script (/usr/lib/hal/scripts/linux/hal-system-power-suspend-linux) uses pm-utils, and pm-utils seems to not bring down/up the network interfaces at all.

• Trouble authenticating to WPA2 enterprise network. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpasupplicant/+bug/304126; workaround exists.

• WPA supplicant still has trouble maintaining connection. Eventually the connection failed.

VAIO laptop

• The delayed start after laptop resume from suspend is still there, but happened randomly and the delay time varies. This bug report seems to be related: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/226279

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