How can i define my laptop on linux ?

I Have a laptop lenovo n200 model 0769 And i installed linux suse 10.2


where can i get the hardware support for my laptop ?

How can i define my laptop on linux ?
http://www.lenovo.com may have stuff.





Else http://www.opensuse.com





Normally when you install Linux it will auto detect all the hardware that can be supported. Some strange hardware simply won't work, it simply won't have a driver available. It's often the wireless LAN cards that suffer from that fate so you may need to use a Cat5 cable to wire your machine to your home/SOHO router to get connected to the internet (until you can find a wireless LAN driver).





If you've got as far as completing the installation and the machine boots OK then you're well on the way.
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Reply:The best way to deal with hardware support is first to try out different distro's. Linux Suse is very nice, but then so is Ubuntu and PC linux OS... You should try a liveCD for these distro's first. With my computer, I had some trouble with SUSE (just my hardware, not a problem with SUSE per se) and Ubuntu had no trouble with anything, however the reverse was true for my friend's laptop.





Hardware support should be easy to come by in the openSUSE forums, but I find that Ubuntu forums are much more efficient (rather like comparing yahoo answers to 'another answers site'. Ubuntu has a huge majority in active contributors - all of my answers have been answered within minutes.