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I use a Compaq notebook. Here are its details:

Model no: Compaq Presario 2203AL Motherboard: Intel 855 GM with Intel Xtreme 2 graphics Procesor: Intel Pentium M 715 1.5GHz

I have a similar notebook - V5000. My wireless lan gets detected out of the box on suse 10.1. But I have a problem with sound. It refuses to play at max volume. Did you face similar a issue?

Fedora Core 1 did not detect the sound card, but Fedora Core 2 and now Fedora Core 5 work fine. Sometimes, I do not get sound but that is easily fixed by going to the 'detect sound card' menu in GNOME and increasing the sound level using the slider there. Funnily the after exiting the utility, the slider goes back to where it was but the thing does not go mute. I suggest you try tinkering with any such utility if you have.

Otherwise you might try the 'alsamixer' utility too. I use ALSA on my Fedora Core 5 system.

BTW, my modem is also not detected, but thats not an issue since I don't need it. I understand HP has the drivers on their site.

Same here with me. But the supplied driver works just fine.

Cheerio, Debarshi