Software Suspend In a Unlikely Place

I've been working to get Linux working 100% on my laptop for ages. It's HP Ze4430us which is only about year old. Even with 2.6.x I was unable to get software suspend (Saving machine state to disk) which many Linux laptop users bemoan the lack of and are forced to wait through long boot times for many distros.

We'll I loaded my Distro of choice (Linspire) onto the laptop. I did not expect the desktop edition (Linspire has a Laptop Edition) to have any special laptop features already loaded. We'll it did and when the battery meter loaded up I saw a option to suspend. Since it was a fresh install and I was not really worried of screwing up anything I told it to suspend. We'll it did. And better yet it completely booted back up when I hit the power button. Mouse was a little confused but after turning it on and off with the button on the keyboard it worked fine.. so it's not really a big issue. They pulled this off on a 2.4.24 kernel which is also a big surprise.

So I can honestly say everything I want working on my laptop is working great. I'm still having a 54g issue and my trusted Linuxant drivers are not behaving but I'm confident I will have that issue fixed sometime today when I get time to see why it's not working.