Fun with laptops
Well I'm working on an interesting problem! I recently purchased a new laptop to put Linux on and I've got it installed with few problems (need to do some research that's all). OK, so far so good! Well I did some fooling around with NDISwrapper and I've gotten to the point where it will recognize a PCMIA card (the Linksys WPC11 V4) but I get stuck after that (I'm trying to use SPA). I also tried NDISwrapper with the Broadcom card but I'm having problems there. So I went another route, I picked up an Intel 2100 802.11b mini PCI card. Well the Compaq Presario M2105US won't boot with the card in. Says something to the effect that it's an unauthorized card (???). I contacted HP and they said it wasn't supported and alluded to something like the AMD Mobile Semperon won't work with the Intel cards. What the heck? I could go all conspiracy theorist but that won't get my card working. I'm not a happy camper now and I'll have to figure out another way of getting wireless connectivity for my laptop! ARGH!
posted by Neil Cherry @ 3:14 PM
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I was looking into this laptop (since it's cheap) - did you resolve your issues? I've used ndiswrapper before (and gotten it working, but it all depends on the card).
Can you give me info from 'lspci' as to what specific wireless card this thing has built in.
Here is what is working:
* Ethernet 10/100
* Wireless networking (ndismwrapper & wpa_suplicant (I use WPA PSK)
* USB (I've only tried 1.1 devices so far)
* The touch pad works fine
* X in 1024x768, ??? bit color (I'm only sharing 32M with the screen)
What's not working:
* Modem
* Sound
I did try to use the modules from a company that sells them on the net but they wouldn't install and I currently don't have the extra time to resolve those problems.
Here is the output of the lspci (and I added the Broadcom card info from lspci -v):
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5950 (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5a3f
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4374
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4375
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4373
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc ATI SMBus (rev 11)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller ATI
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4377
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4371
00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4370 (rev 02)
00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4378 (rev 02)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5955
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
05:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 4318 (rev 02)
05:09.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller
5:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 4318 (rev 02)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 1355
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at d0204000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
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