General Hardware Specifications of Toshiba Portege R700-1DP:

Hardware Components	Status	Notes
Intel Core i5 460M / 2.53 GHz	Works	No special procedure required during installation
13.3’’ WXGA HD LED BackLight (1366×768, mat)	Works	No special procedure required during installation
Intel GMA HD intégrée	Works	No special procedure required during installation
4 Go DDR3 1066 MHz (8 Go), 2 slots	Works	No special procedure required during installation
320 GB Hitatchi 7200 tr/mn	Works	No special procedure required during installation
Integrated Network Card : Intel 82577LC Gigabit	Works	No special procedure required during installation
Internal wireless (wifi b/g/n) : Broadcom 4313	Works	Requires broadcom-sta-common
3G	Works	No special procedure required during installation
DVD±RW (±R DL) / DVD-RAM	Works	No special procedure required during installation
Webcam 0.3 mega pixel	Works	No special procedure required during installation
Sound card	Works	No special procedure required during installation
Fingerprint sensor	Not tested yet	Not tested yet
66 WHr Lithium-Ion Battery	Works	No special procedure required during installation
Internal Sound Card	Works	No special procedure required during installation

This laptop is operating under Kernel version 2.6.35-23-generic

• Obtaining http://www.kubuntu.org/getkubuntu/download
• Standart install
• Post-Install modifications/tweaks for wifi driver:

 sudo apt-get install broadcom-sta-common

• Fingerprint sensor :  not tested yet
• 3G module : not tested yet

• Nothing to change

Links:

• http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/toshiba.html

Realy nice piece of laptop

2 Responses so far | Have Your Say!

1. rick
   August 10th, 2011 at 08:04 #

   has the finger print reader been tested yet, iam tryingto get mine to work with no luck

2. Ju
   August 17th, 2011 at 10:01 #

   Hi Rick, I could not manage to make it work.
   You can find some stuff here :
   http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1550219
   But fingerprint reader is not successful frot hem too.