Hi,
We have 2 Dell Vostro 1510 (bought a few weeks back) running Ubuntu. Everything
works out of the box except wifi for which I was too lazy to configure
ndiswrapper.
I have configured wifi with ndiswrapper in quite a few machines and it works
perfectly.
Based on your description "noapm, noapic and noacpi" it looks like you have an
AMD64 processor. Intel does not need those options.
Try Ubuntu (either live or install) - it should support all hardware without
trouble (except wifi). I shifted from Suse to Ubuntu. Suse seems a lot slower
on the same hardware.
I was born & brought up on fedora but fedora needs more tinkering to get it
working correctly on laptops especially wifi and multimedia. Tried Suse for a
few months. Seemed *very* sluggish. Ubuntu's restricted drivers makes it really
easy for laptops/desktops.
kcK. C. Ramakrishna
rKnowsys Technologies
www.rknowsys.com
