Hardware

• Acer aspire 1350:
  Puppy 1.0.2 - sound card doesn't work.
  Puppy 1.0.3 - reboots instead of shut down, sound card works, couldn't get cd burner to work properly.

• Acer aspire 1355XC, 256MB RAM/XP-M2600+:
  Puppy 1.0.7 - sound OK, DVD playback poor, (may be disc), wireless with PCMCIA D-link DWL-610 OK, not tried CD writing.

• Acer Aspire 1613LMi: 3.06GHz 512MB, video & sound working right off (also 1400x1050). Only one CPU is recognized with defaut kernel.

• Acer Travelmate 240:I was able to boot 1.0.7 on an ACER Travelmate 240 using the built-in Ethernet (wire) but had to run the Ethernet config wizard. The mouse pad works when configured as a PS/2 (no wheel emulation) and video operates at 1024x768-24.

• AJP 2100P: P2-300/256MB/4GB.

• AST Acenia M Series: 233mhz/64meg Ram/3.2 HD/CDrom/Ext Floopy/Netgear FA511 using tupil driver. Working (sound not-working Crystal CS4237) Puppy make it run.

• ASUS L8400B: 550MHz Celeron, 192MB ram, DVD drive, 20GB HDD, USB mouse. Aureal 8810 sound does not work (Aureal went broke).

• Compaq Armada 1500c: Works fine, but no sound :( I guess it doesn't recognize the soundcard. [Add snd-es1688 to /etc/modules.]

• Compaq Armada M700: Everything works except for the keyboard mouse pointer (NaNoWriMo Linux built on Puppy).

• Compaq Evo N 11O: I found that it was effective for booting from a USB CD WRITER using the wakeup program.. It managed to find my usb sandisk 128MB but refused to boot from it.

• Compaq Presario 17XL7xx: 750MHz 384MB RAM blah blah blah, everything works good :)
• Compaq Presario 1277: 192 meg ram sharing 8 meg for video (maxed out)
  60 gig hdd (upgraded from 4.2 gig) all other internals stock
  Netgear wg511u a, b, g pcmcia wifi card working (atheros chipset)
  Intellinet wireless g pcmcia wifi card not yet working (backup card if i can get it working)
  Cheap usb hub allowing the 1.1 usb to run the following:
  Logitech usb optical mouse with working scroll wheel
  Liteon 52-32-52 cd r-rw-w burner (suppose to run on usb2.0 so it burns slowly, but hasn't missed yet)
  80 gig usb hdd
  A half gig usb flash drive also works

• Compaq Presario V3117LA: (Full product specs∞)
  (Puppy 2.16) some probs with xorg (Nvidia GeForce on board graphics) & wireless (broadcom), otherwise OK.

• Dell Latitude D610: 2.0 Ghz Pentium M with 2GB RAM.
  Puppy 1.0.4 - Works great but, still trying to boot from USB. jerry@pentego.com

• Dell Latitude D610: 1.8 Ghz Pentium M with 512 GB RAM.
  Puppy 2.12 - Works great. To have the wireless working you need to use the ndiswrapper with the bcmwl5 windows driver. Everything else worked out of the box.

• Dell D600: 1.6GhzPentium M/52MB 1024x768@24.
  Puppy 1.0.2 (kernel 2.6.11.7) - Sound works. My EVDO card is not recognized 8-(.

• Dell Latitude Cpi 88: 366mhz/256m ram/512mb cfcard/ide-adapter with usb-install network via dock, video & sound working right off.

• Dell Latitude C640: 1.7GHz ram/512mb Both with the integrated network port and wireless Linksys WPC11 Ver 2.0 video, sound and network working right off. Kernel 2.4.x works perfect with NTFS. Kernel 2.6.0 corrupts NTFS. Cannot set BIOS to boot from USB.

• Dell Latitude LS: Pentium III 300, 128M Ram, 12GB HD. HD install. All Hardware functional. The only Distro/OS that runs quickly and efficently on this machine.

• DELL Inspiron 2650: 1.0gb Celeron/384MB ram/CDRW/Lucent Ethernet PCMCIA. Works great! Problem recognizing Windows attachen network printers. Love it!

• DELL Inspiron 5100: 2.66Ghz Celeron/512MB ram/DVD-ROM. Works from a CDR but not from a USB drive. From USB I get the SYSLINUX version tag but the vmlinuz and image.gz don't load.

• DELL Inspiron 630m: puppy2.12 centrino processor /1GB ram/DVD +/- RW. Running from multi-session DVD R+. Sound works well including headphone jack, haven't tried microphone. Quick test of card reader, MUTdidn't show anything, I didn't explore further. I haven't tried the modem.

• DELL Inspiron 9200: 2.00Ghz Centrino/1GB ram/CDRWDVD/Built-in Ethernet & WIFI.
  Puppy 2.10-2.14 - Works fine, used ndiswrapper for wireless.

• DELL Inspiron 9300: 1.7gb Centrino/1900x1200@16/1GB ram/CDRWDVD/Built-in Ethernet & WIFI.
  Puppy 1.0.3 - Works fine, could not figure out how to connect via WiFi; did not try audio.
• Fujitsu Siemens Amilo D7830 has worked with all puppy versions from 2.11 to Puppy 4 dingo

• Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook C345: P2-266/64MB/3GB/24xCD/USB/2xPC-Card. Worked just fine. No autom sound. do a modprobe sb.
• Fujitsu Lifebook 780Tx:P1-233 MMX 800x600 64Mb Ram 3Gig Disc Puppy 2.01 Seamonkey. Netwoking fine using Asus 107G card with ndiswrapper. Built-in mouse not seen so have to use external PS/2 mouse
• Gateway NX200s: It works nicely on the Gateway NX200s, I tried several distros and this laptop is linux friendly. I use the 915resolution patch to get 1280x768x24 resolution.

• Gateway Solo 2500: P2-333/96MB/6GB/10xCD/USB/PCMCIA stuff. Took a little "tweaking" but now works GREAT (2.11)!
• HP Compaq nx6110: Puppy 4.1 works
• HP Compaq nc6220: Pentium M 1.73GHz cpu, 512Mb DDR2 RAM, Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900, 60Gb Toshiba hdd, DVD/CD burner combo, Broadcom NIC, 3 x USB ports, Synaptic mouse touchpad.
  
• All working exceptionally well with multiple versions of Puppy 2.xx - haven't been able to install Puppy 1.09CE but then I haven't tried very hard either. Can't vouch for the AMD versions. Sorry.

• HP Pavilion N5470: AMD Athalon 4, 512MB RAM, 20GB hard drive, DVD-CDRW, 2xUSB1.1 ports, internal modem, internal network adapter. Windows XP on hard drive. Cruzer Mini 1GB thumb drive. No option in BIOS for USB boot.
  Works Great with Chubby Puppy 1.0.4 and seems to work great with Puppy 1.0.5RC, more details on my Wiki page

• HP Pavilion N5490

• HP Pavilion ze4200: There's a BIOS problem on this machine. If using a 2.4 series kernel, you *must* disable the Legacy USB support.

• HP Pavilion zv6278ae: Boot with "acpi=strict acpi=noirq pci=biosirq pci=nosort irqpoll routeirq". Wifi working with ndiswrapper and Win driver. Flash memory reader not working, up to now (Puppy 2.13 with 2.6.18.1 kernel). Modem untested. Allright the rest.

• Hyrican: with SIS Twister Savage chipset

• IBM Thinkpad 380Z: Recognizes CD, pcmcia-netcard. See-s embedded keyboard joystick-mouse + external mouse.
  - added "modprobe -v cs4232 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0" to line 138 of /etc/rd.1/rc.local0 for full soundcard support. (yep!)

• IBM Thinkpad 390E: Linksys WPC11 V4 Booted from CD, worked except Wireless, added in wifi-beta, wlan, etc. Installed to hard drive with boot floppy.

• IBM Thinkpad 600: After flashing/updating bios, recognized cd, installed great, set up mouse and found wireless pci with minimal effort. Now runs installed on this Pentium II processor. Installed version 4.0 via cd.

• IBM Thinkpad 600X: Recognizes CD, external FDD, USB, sound, modem, pcmcia-pccard-cardbus nic, ps/2 mouse. Doesn't see embedded keyboard joystick-mouse. Quick, clean, new life for older laptop ... now on to the 600E!

• IBM Thinkpad 560Z: 128M, 6GB HD, no CD or floppy; xf86_svga; cs4237B sound; DWL-650 and DWL-g630. Hard-drive install. Surprisingly quick. See forum for details on install.

• IBM Thinkpad 600E: Linksys WPC11 V4 with the wifi dotpup. Disable "quick boot" in bios to enable sound. See forum. Puppy 1.0.4.
• IBM Thinkpad 600E: 1.0.9ce alsa works after adding (options snd-cs4236 isapnp=0 cport=0x538 port=0x530 sb_port=0x220 fm_port=0x388 irq=5 dma1=1 dma2=0) to /etc/rc.d/rc.local

• IBM Thinkpad 770z: Orinoco gold classic wifi. After a minor sound config. [ modprobe cs4232 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0 mpuio=0x330 mpuirq=9 synthirq=5 synthio=0x388]

• IBM Thinkpad A22p: 384Mb RAM, 1GHz PIII; Sound, works without issue, ACPI sleep works with [ echo -n mem > /sys/power/state ]; DWL-650 revP wireless with hostap; Installed to HD

• IBM Thinkpad X30: puppy 2.14 frugal install. Internal wifi works. Haven't tested microphone, modem, or card reader, toyed with IR but have no previous experience so can't confirm either way, hairywill.

• IBM Thinkpad X31: HDD install inside XP (NTFS). All seems to work except integrated (mini PCI) WiFi card

IBM Thinkpad R40: Puppy 4.00 All seems to work, trackpoint, and Synaptic Touchpad, Intel 82801dB sound, video, USB, --AND-- Cisco/Aironet 802.11 mini PCI internal WiFi card works also.  I have this on a hdd dual boot with Win_XP_pro_SP2 NTFS. Can someone please put the dog paw to the left for me, and fix my text indent? TY. Obviously the R40 computer is extremely fast with Puppy, the cpu is a 1.4ghz Pentium-M, 512M ram, 60G HDD, x.org 1024x768. I hope to achieve extended battery life with Puppy over XP on this machine.

• IBM Thinkpad T21: All seems to work -onboard-sound, onboard-netcard....i-m happy!

• IBM Thinkpad T22: 1.0.9ce hd install acpi=off apm=on. Burner works with burniso2cd, no luck with graveman. Very Fast! Still testing and modding.

• IBM Thinkpad T23: 2.0.1 Dual Boot HD Install type2 Super!
• IBM Thinkpad T41: USB install/boot, All seems to work. No WiFi card for testing

• IBM Thinkpad T42P: USB install/boot, All seems to work except integrated WiFi. Multisession CD seemed to work but wouldn't boot afterwards.

• IPC TopnoteH: P3-700/256MB/10GB. PCMCIA Wireless Linksys WPCI54G card. HD install. No problems.

• Lifetec LT9303: P2-300/160MB/6GB/24xCD/USB/2xPC-Card.
  Puppy 1.0.2 (50m, 2.6.11 Kernel) - Worked just fine. Sound works. PC-Card works. TFT is 800x600.

• NEC Versa SX Pentium II: My NEC Versa SX Pentium II 233MHz/256MbRAM has a D-Link DWL610 wifi 802.11b PCMCIA - All AOK with Live CD pups 108r1, 109ce, 200, 201.

• Panasonic CF-35: Pentium MMX 150MHz/48MB/2.16GB/USB/CDROM
  Puppy 2.10 - Sound Card Yamaha OPL3-SA2 use manual settings in BIOS, configure with ALSA wizard.

• Panasonic Tuffbook CF-71: P2-366/128MB/10GB/USB /CDRW Xircom Pcmcia Ethernet.
  Puppy 1.0.4 (Type 2 hard drive install) - Had to modprobe the Pcmcia card to get it started, everything else working great.

• Sony Vaio pcg-Z600RE: 500MHz 128m ram. pcmcia Cd-Rom, usb floppy.
  Puppy 1.03 - Installed perfectly and has sound and network card, using usb mouse. Excellent!

• Sony vaio pcg-f707: p3, 600 Mhz, drilled up to 320 megs of RAM

• Sony Vaio VGN-FS550: Multisession Puppy DVD (using DVD+RW!!) - wireless works with Intel ProWireless 2200BG

• Sony vaio PCG-FX501: cdboot working

• Toshiba Satellite A30-203: Works on Toshiba Satellite A30-203

• Toshiba Satellite M35X-149: Version 2.14 works very well. Wireless, printer and Skype all working within 5 minutes. Clever pup.

• Toshiba Tecra 780 DVD: Sound Card is still on the works.

• Toshiba Tecra 8000: 366mhz 192mb linksys wifi. See the howto∞. Fast little pup.

• Toshiba Tecra 8100: 600MHz 128MB - ACPI off and everything works fine

• Toshiba Tecra 8200: 850MHz 256MB - everything works fine

• Toshiba P35-S611: P4 3.33GHz/512MB RAM/100GB HD Puppy runs great, but still fiddling with the sound (RealTek ALC250).

• Toshiba Portege 650ct subnotebook: P1/56MB/1GB/FDD/ 2XPCMCIA. HDD install with swap - works really well. More on my blog∞

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