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 M50V 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 /etc/init.d/net.eth0 symlink to /etc/init.d/net.lo and start it at boot by: rc-update add net.eth0 default. (You don't really need to add it to default boot level, because net.eth0 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 /etc/conf.d/net is ignored!

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