CentOS on Laptops

This page brings together all information regarding CentOS on Laptops. If you own a laptop and you consider putting CentOS on it, please write down your experience and add it to this list.

If you want to add information for your model, navigate your browser to http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Manufacturer/Model replacing Manufacturer and Model with the information for your Laptop, for example http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Panasonic/XF850T.

This will prompt you for adding a new page. Please choose LaptopTemplate for the new page and fill out the information in that template. After that please link to your page on this page here.

Preparation tasks

Repartition your harddisk
Backup your Master Boot Record (MBR)
Modifying your bootloader

Customization tasks

Making Wireless work -- wireless drivers, etc. Go here first before attempting to configure Network Manager or wpa_supplicant.
Enabling NetworkManager
Enabling wpa_supplicant -- Simple wpa_supplicant on-boot configuration without using NetworkManager
Enabling 3D desktop (CentOS-5 or higher)
Enabling multimedia playback (mp3, mpg, avi, ...)