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| Name | Asus K53E |
| Processor | Intel® Core™ i5 2410M Intel® Core™ i3 2310M |
| Screen | 15.6” (1366×768) Widescreen |
| RAM | Up to 8GB |
| HDD | up to 750GB |
| Optical Drive | DVD+-RW Blu-ray |
| Graphics | Intel® GMA HD |
| Network | 10/100/1000 Ethernet 802.11 b/g/n |
| Device | Compatibility | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Processor | Works out of the box | Including Turbo Boost |
| Screen | Works out of the box | |
| HDD | Works out of the box | |
| Optical Drive | Works out of the box | |
| Graphics | Works out of the box | Intel |
| Sound | Works out of the box | |
| Ethernet | Works out of the box | |
| Wireless | Works out of the box | (Atheros) ath9k driver |
| Bluetooth | Works out of the box | kernel 3.0+ |
| Modem | - | Does not have one |
| USB | Works out of the box | |
| Card Reader | Works out of the box | |
| Webcam | Works out of the box |
Everything works with kernel 3.2+
It's a good bang for the buck.
Discussion
I have ASUS K53E with I5 processor;
Trying to install RHEL 6.2 (latest). I cant find any 64-bit or even 32-bit drivers for the Atheros Network and Ethernet Controllers. Of the ones that I saw on the various postings, like the compatability .rpms they all corrupted the kernel and could not reboot again.
Can anyone point me to where the stable .rpms drivers are for RedHat Linux?
sam
I have version with b940 processor@ 2.0 GHz and 6 GB of ram . There is several problems with Ubuntu on this machine
-Camera works upside down
-Wi-Fi led dont work
-cooler spinning all the time at full speed
-Hibernate and suspend functions dont work
Sorry about my bad english
I'm running 11.10 and everything worked right out of the box except the suspend/hibernate feature AND the brightness settings never get saved. Every time I boot up it's on the brightness setting and I have to go to system settings to change it. Any ideas on how to fix this?
Works great ubuntu 10.04
just had a bit of fiddling to find the drivers for canon printer
http://software.canon-europe.com/software/0040266.asp
http://support-in.canon-asia.com/contents/IN/EN/0100302702.html
Having trouble with skype webcam
:)
Little late for a reply on this one, but can someone tell me how I might start configuring the suspend/hibernate on OpenSUSE 12? I had a fix for Ubuntu, but since switching to OpenSUSE I can't seem to figure it out.
Thanks to anyone who can help.
Any1 here try install this laptop with ubuntu 11.10? or should be wait till 12.04?
I'm running 11.10 now (3.2.0-030200rc4-generic kernel) and my situation hasn't changed. With heavy usage, the ethernet continue to drop and requires me to disable then re-enable to restore it and wifi still doesn't work.
Did you experience ethernet problems during installation?
Not as I recall any, nope… some days it doesn't happen at all, other days it's every couple of minutes. I wish they'd just fix the drivers for this chipset already. >.<
Running Ubuntu 11.04 (natty) with latest Ubuntu Linux kernel available from the Ubuntu kernel team's site at http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ (3.1.0-0301rc9-generic)… and even with the latest, while the ethernet works and configures fine… after a while of heavy usage it will die and requires me to disable then re-enable ethernet to restore it. Wireless seems impossible to get working. Aside from that, everything else seems to work normally with the new kernel (including the weird keyboard problems I used to get with the older kernel).
But, why RH on laptop?
I set up my K53e as dual-boot (Win7 & RH 6.1).
All good except :
1) Ethernet adaptor does not work - driver not part of that kernel.
2) Latest multimedia rpms give dependenacy errors and dont install.
3) Wireless had to be hand configed.
Will update more later when I get a chance to work on it.