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| Name | Acer Aspire 5251 |
| Processor | AMD™ V Series Processor V120 (512KB L2 cache, 2.2GHz) |
| Screen | 15.6” (1366×768) Widescreen |
| RAM | Up to 8GB |
| HDD | up to 500GB |
| Optical Drive | DVD+-RW |
| Graphics | ATI Radeon™ HD 4250 |
| Network | 10/100/1000 Ethernet Acer InviLink Nplify 802.11b/g/n |
| Device | Compatibility | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Processor | Not Tested | |
| Screen | Limited | |
| HDD | Compatible | Mounts all Partitions |
| Optical Drive | Not Tested | |
| Graphics | Limited | XORG fails to auto-config |
| Sound | Not Tested | |
| Ethernet | Compatible | |
| Wireless | Limited | Detected as wired |
| USB | Not Tested | |
| Card Reader | Not Tested | |
| Webcam | Not Tested |
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Discussion
I run Mepis 8.5 using this notebook. Works great and the wireless is detected upon boot of the live CD.You only need to insert your WPA ID. The only other distro to work is Fat Dog 64-500 which also detects the Broadcom card. Most other distros don't detect the wireless network.