Bryan J. Smith wrote:
>On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 20:16, Tom E. Craddock, Jr. wrote:
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>>Hey,
>>I looked into getting one of their laptops as I feel the same way,
>>wanted a good reliable laptop, 15"-17" LCD screen, DVD burner, large
>>RAM, etc. I ended up going with an HP zt3380us from Circuit City for
>>around ~$1700.00. I had done a bit of research, and found that it met
>>up to all of my hardware desires, and that there wasnt too much one had
>>to do to get all the hardware working. I am running FC2, kernel
>>2.6.8-1.521, and have all of the hardware working on if.
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>HP is one of the extremely few tier-1 companies pushing Linux on the
>_desktop_.
>And their record versus IBM and others in this regard is unquestioned.
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>>I have a link below to the laptop site at HP,
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>HP also does a great job on telling you what will work, as well as what
>they officially support too.
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>>but heres the hardware that seemed like
>>it wouldve been hard, but was quite easy. Within an hour of first
>>repartitioning and install a stock FC2 I had the below working:
>>Bluetooth w/KDE framework
>>Intel Centrino 802.11b/g WiFI
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>Is that the Centrino platform 802.11b/g (2.4GHz) WLAN?
>Or is the an external Atheros 802.11a/b/g (2.4 and 5GHz) chipset?
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>I was under the impression the Centrino platform 802.11b/g "software"
>(aka Host-based MAC) MAC didn't work with Linux, and HP required you to
>buy their add-on Atheros 802.11a/b/g chipset WLAN for compatibility with
>Linux.
>
>[ Side note: The Atheros is also a software/host-based MAC, but like
>nVidia, they make a platform-unified (Windows, Linux, Mac, etc...)
>"object code" and then link in a loader for just the kernel. Also note
>there are some real issues with GPL software/host-based MACs and FCC
>compliance, so the binary "object code" is also for regulatory reasons.
>]
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>[ Also: Does anyone know if the Pentium "M" Centrino is the Pentium 4
>or Pentium 3 core? I assume it's the former, although it could be a
>redesign of the P3 core. I know early Centrinos were P3 cores, but I
>know the PPro-P3 core design wouldn't scale past 1GHz until Intel made
>some serious, localized async mods, and then they only made it to
>1.4-1.5GHz. It would tell me how much battery life they would get. ]
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>>SD Reader (I installed everything needed for it, but havent had a chance
>>to test it yet)
>>The laptop is a 15.4" WXGA Widescreen HiDef display @1280x800...a quick
>>edit of the xorg.conf and it was working beautifully.
>>
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>The suspend operation is also fully supported AFAIK.
>Now if they only sold one with a nVidia GPU, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
>Although the ATI Standardware drivers are now getting better I hear.
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>>Outside of that, everything else on the laptop works with the stock FC2
>>install. Not sure if this is exactly this is what youd be interested,
>>but thought you may find it interesting.
>>http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?product=421940&cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&docname=c00169925
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Hi,
I am using the internal 802.11 b/g Centrino in the laptop....the drivers
I had to install first were the ipw2200, then a reboot and Kudzu picked
up the new hardware, told it I wanted it to take a DHCP IP from my AP,
and it connected.
ipw2200 site: http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/
RPMs for FC2 from ATrpms: http://atrpms.net/name/ipw2200/
Tom Craddock Jr.
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