Acer ao756-2840

The Acer ao756 is a netbook running a Intel Celeron 847/1.1 GHz and comes standard with 2 GB of ram. The laptop has 3 USB 2.0 interfaces as well as a VGA, HDMI and LAN interfaces.

Graphics
The ao756 has a Intel 2nd Gen Core video controller. The following kernel config will work well. See the Gentoo Intel Page for further details.

Wireless
Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter You need to activate the following kernel options:

Ethernet
Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM57785 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 10)

Backlight
In order to be able to control the backlight, the following changes will need to be applied to.

Then execute  to apply the changes: