Kirya [.net]

Yesterday, I bought a new laptop: a Toshiba Satellite M40X-141 (link in French, as this product seems to be only available here). I bought it in a hypermaket for €399 (with a 50% discount!).

I first booted once to bundled Windows XP, and checked everything was usable (wifi, video card, sound etc.). Then, I installed Debian Etch thanks to the debian-installer Etch beta 1, and run the install without any major problem (except maybe the ata_piix module preventing access to DVD drive, which is very easy to fix by loading the ide-cd and isofs modules at the first install screen).

So far, everything is working fine, even the Atheros wifi card, thanks to madfiwi drivers.

I will soon write an article on www.kirya.net to detail all the installation process and configuration for this laptop.