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by Nicolas Christener on Thursday 09/Sep/2004, @08:26

Hi I'm a long time HP-reseller (also have a HP-Star-Cert.) and really like the HP nx-series. I've Debian on my nx7000 and always need to borrow a harddrive of a friend (which has windows on his nx7000) to flash the BIOS. If HP would make a BIOS Flash utility available for Linux, this would be great! An other problem is the SD-Card reader. Cause of a damn NDA (AFAIK), there are no opensource drivers for this device :( (http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/12/20/2224254&mode=thread) However, HP's on the right way :) (Sorry, my english is not that good)

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SD-Card reader
by ac on Thursday 09/Sep/2004, @09:18

http://projects.drzeus.cx/wbsd/

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Re: SD-Card reader
by HASSAN YOUZBACHI on Tuesday 28/Jun/2005, @01:47

HI Im LOKING FOR CARD READER WRITER KT-2908

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Re: *KEWL* --- more ZD7000 questions
by Bob Knight on Tuesday 21/Jun/2005, @18:46

The Winbond driver *specifically* states that it is not for the ENE Technology device.

Thomas: could HP exert some pressure on ENE to release specifications to the open source community? Ad-hoc efforts from BSD and Linux people have not had ANY success. Seems like it'd be a very noble thing for HP to do. Please advise.

Another thing: on a ZD7000, one cannot change out the broadcom minipci card for, say, an atheros card. For those of us who do wireless hacking this is a very big lose. Could a revamped BIOS happen?

Finally, ACPI suspend is very problematic with the ZD7000. Nvidia and other drivers are a problem. Could HP post specific guidance on making it work?

If HP got its Linux act together, I would buy another laptop from HP. However, I can't say I would at this point: there are other manufacturers who seem to be more willing to provide better support across their product lines.

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