Arch is mostly laptop friendly

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Sorry I made some people mad. I just got frustrated and over-reacted. I didn't mean to offend anyone, and by reading my post I noticed how it may have been a little derogatory.
The new beyond kernel works now except for suspend to ram which is ok.

Sorry if I may have over-reacted. I was upset because I did in fact spend several days trying to get things to work and nothing I did worked -- thus I complained. Suspend to ram worked fine with kernel26-2.6.16.20 and when I updated it broke when I expected more to work.
I've been able to suspend to disk with the normal arch kernel, but nothing that I put into the kernel line would cause it to even try to resume which is why I thought it wasn't incorperated. From what it sounds like, it is in fact supported so if someone could tell me the correct kernel parameter that would be great.
Also, I didn't realize that I had to post elsewhere to get a bug recognized. I created a thread here about the speedstep problem and apparently others have too, so I'm not the only one. And you can't complain about it not being on the bugtracker if you can respond to this post 1 day after it was posted and you can't acknowledge another post about the bug.
About networkmanager, I got the pkgbuild from aur and it worked flawlessly which is why I thought it would be fairly simple to just add to community or whatever. I just thought that it should be added to the gnome stuff in the extra repository because it seems to be considered part of gnome now. Also, wireless usually isn't that big of a deal to get running, but when the networks you connect to use WPA, it's a lot nicer to have a tool that does that for you.
The beyond stuff I thought was an easy fix because the regular kernel and CK seem to recognize speedstep and the network devices so maybe it just needed a recompile or something. Also, much of the mobile world is moving to core duo, so not supporting it is not a good idea.
And I used to have a CK kernel on this laptop (before beyond existed) and it had suspend2. Sorry, I haven't been as up-to-date as everyone else
I like Arch (there are reasons that I stick with it instead of just using Ubuntu), but I just got a little carried away.
Also, next time I will remember to use the bugtracker. I didn't know it existed.
Sorry

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