ASUS X71SL

Asus X71SL is a laptop manufactured by Asus.

Product page: http://www.asus.com/Notebooks/Multimedia_Entertainment/X71SL/

This article describes the hardware on the X71SL and the drivers required to use it.

General Configuration
Wired network doesn't work perfectly by default. MTU need to be set to 1492 instead of the default 1500 to work. I don't know why. This problem happens with systemresc cd, Ubuntu and every Linux distribution I tried.

You have to create the symlink to  and start it at boot by:

You don't really need to add it to the default boot level, because net.eth0 is started by hotplug by default. But I noticed that if I use dracut to boot the system, the ip is fine, but the settings in are ignored!

Sound
The audio hardware is supported by the Intel HD Audio drivers: