Debian ETCH 4.0 on toshiba equium a100-063
All components work immediately pretty well, the only matter was with the Atheros
Wifi, but fortunally it works simply with the madwifi modules.
There's no way, till now, i believe, to let work the sd/mmc/ms card reader.
I have not tested the modem within, but i think it doesn't work.
Components
Processore Pentium Dual Core 2060
RAM 1024 Mb
Hard disk 120 Gb
Monitor TFT 15,4 TruBrite WXGA Risoluzione 1280 x 800
Scheda video 945GM
DVD Super Multi Duble layer
Bridge Media 5-in-1 compatibile SD, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, MMC, xD-Picture Card
USB 4 USB 2.0
Modem V90
LAN Ethernet 10/100
i-Link i.Link IEEE 1394
TV/OUT S-Video/OUT
WLAN Wireless LAN 802.11 b/g Atheros
Wireless
Update yuor source.list with:
# Unstable
deb ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
# Testing
deb ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
# Stable
deb ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
then as root
#apt-get update
#apt-get install module-assistant
#m-a prepare (say yes to all)
#m-a a-i madwifi
#modprode ath_pci
Then the wireless works. Pretty simple!