If it is an intel gigabit card, just "modprobe e1000" from a gentoo live cd to get your nic up.
If its a broadcom nic theres still a driver for it. (I cant recall the module name right now)
I'd really recommend Gentoo over any other distro just for the fact that you customize your install the way you want it. Plus you wont get a fully bloated kernel which RedHat likes to use. Why should you have services and drivers that aren't even needed for your machine? Thats where Gentoo comes in :)
I've got Gentoo running on 4 different Dell servers (1750, 2650, 6800, 1850), Dell workstations (gx240-280..something worth noting is that i used an AGP video card in those machines, as the onboard intel video isn't supported very well in linux), and a few Dell laptops. Latitude C510, C610, and a few more..cannot remember models.
If you do decide to go with Gentoo look at http://forums.gentoo.org. You wont find a better support community any where else.
If you do decide to go with Gentoo post back in here with any issues you have.
@christopherv wrote:
What type of Nic and wifi card is in that laptop?
If it is an intel gigabit card, just "modprobe e1000" from a gentoo live cd to get your nic up.
If its a broadcom nic theres still a driver for it. (I cant recall the module name right now)
I'd really recommend Gentoo over any other distro just for the fact that you customize your install the way you want it. Plus you wont get a fully bloated kernel which RedHat likes to use. Why should you have services and drivers that aren't even needed for your machine? Thats where Gentoo comes in :)
I've got Gentoo running on 4 different Dell servers (1750, 2650, 6800, 1850), Dell workstations (gx240-280..something worth noting is that i used an AGP video card in those machines, as the onboard intel video isn't supported very well in linux), and a few Dell laptops. Latitude C510, C610, and a few more..cannot remember models.
If you do decide to go with Gentoo look at http://forums.gentoo.org. You wont find a better support community any where else.
If you do decide to go with Gentoo post back in here with any issues you have.
Thanks!
I an integrated 10/100 ethernet network card and an intel PRO 2200 internal wireless (802.11 b/g, 54Mbps) card. Is the modprobe e1000 all I need to do, or is there something else to get the ethernet and wireless card up? Anything else I should take into consideration?
I got DRI working correcly on my M140 just the other day with gentoo,took me a while but i pretty much followed this guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/dri-howto.xml
After doing that everything worked great.
The only thing that i actually noticed different was that the agpgart actually has to be built into the kernel in order to allow the "Intel 440LX/BX/GX and I815/I820/I830M/I830MP/I840/I845/I850/I860 support" option to be turned on. Other then that i made sure the i915 kernel driver was a module and NOT compiled in (I couldn't get it to work that way). The other thing to check as the guide says is to not allow kernel DRI to be turned on, the X11-drm file will provide that.
This is all based on the 2.6.15 kernel compiled with all the genkernel patches and modular xorg. hope it helps.
Fedora Core 5 works out of the box on the XPS M140 laptops. I installed it from scratch just a few minutes ago, and everything is working except the audio (gotta tweak the mixer but the right drivers are compiled in). It detects everything and even set the video to 1280x800 automatically. I didn't have to change a thing...
I did a gentoo install a few days ago prior to the fedora release and it was a pain in the read end deluxe. If it wasn't for the fact that Fedora does such a fine job of autodetecting display drivers when they're supported, I'd probably still be using Gentoo. But honestly, I can't tell much of a speed difference, other than the bloast vs. unbloated kernel diff. I'll be recompiling the fedora bloat kernel shortly and adding in NTFS support.
Fedora Core 5 was released on Monday and it should be on all the usual mirrors. If you're looking for the dvd iso's just download via the torrent, or use one of the redhat combiner scripts for making dvd's. I believe you need the rpm's for the redhat installer dev tools to use the script though. You'll need to download the cd iso's to combine into dvd iso's if you want to use the script.
Anyways, Fedora Core 5 works beautifully.
Save yourself a few days worth of compiling and just install Fedora Core 5.
H3ll, if "out of the box working" is what I wanted, I'd just leave mickey-soft on it. Everything worked fine!
I use Gentoo so I'm not relying on scripts I barely understand. It's like driving a stick-shift sports car vs. an Eddie Bauer edition SUV: one allows you total control for a slimmed-down system. The other one allows you the safety of knowing that everything and the kitchen sink is in it. I like to be able to know what is going on with my system. I enjoy the satisfaction of configuring two systems to work together, and tweaking things.
Anyway, turns out after I included "dri" in the USE flag, I needed to recomplied glproto, xorg-server, and xfi810proto. Now I'm getting 1700 fps. Weeee!
This was also after totally botching up a gcc transfer due to human stupidity again. And getting it back. (I RULE!)
torsten_deluxe
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February 20th, 2006 16:00
bozemblem
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February 20th, 2006 21:00
christopherv
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February 21st, 2006 18:00
If it is an intel gigabit card, just "modprobe e1000" from a gentoo live cd to get your nic up.
If its a broadcom nic theres still a driver for it. (I cant recall the module name right now)
I'd really recommend Gentoo over any other distro just for the fact that you customize your install the way you want it. Plus you wont get a fully bloated kernel which RedHat likes to use. Why should you have services and drivers that aren't even needed for your machine? Thats where Gentoo comes in :)
I've got Gentoo running on 4 different Dell servers (1750, 2650, 6800, 1850), Dell workstations (gx240-280..something worth noting is that i used an AGP video card in those machines, as the onboard intel video isn't supported very well in linux), and a few Dell laptops. Latitude C510, C610, and a few more..cannot remember models.
If you do decide to go with Gentoo look at http://forums.gentoo.org. You wont find a better support community any where else.
If you do decide to go with Gentoo post back in here with any issues you have.
Thanks!
bozemblem
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February 21st, 2006 20:00
I an integrated 10/100 ethernet network card and an intel PRO 2200 internal wireless (802.11 b/g, 54Mbps) card. Is the modprobe e1000 all I need to do, or is there something else to get the ethernet and wireless card up? Anything else I should take into consideration?
christopherv
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February 21st, 2006 20:00
diablo93
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March 21st, 2006 17:00
After doing that everything worked great.
The only thing that i actually noticed different was that the agpgart actually has to be built into the kernel in order to allow the "Intel 440LX/BX/GX and I815/I820/I830M/I830MP/I840/I845/I850/I860 support" option to be turned on. Other then that i made sure the i915 kernel driver was a module and NOT compiled in (I couldn't get it to work that way). The other thing to check as the guide says is to not allow kernel DRI to be turned on, the X11-drm file will provide that.
This is all based on the 2.6.15 kernel compiled with all the genkernel patches and modular xorg. hope it helps.
SatireWolf
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March 21st, 2006 19:00
Fedora Core 5 works out of the box on the XPS M140 laptops. I installed it from scratch just a few minutes ago, and everything is working except the audio (gotta tweak the mixer but the right drivers are compiled in). It detects everything and even set the video to 1280x800 automatically. I didn't have to change a thing...
I did a gentoo install a few days ago prior to the fedora release and it was a pain in the read end deluxe. If it wasn't for the fact that Fedora does such a fine job of autodetecting display drivers when they're supported, I'd probably still be using Gentoo. But honestly, I can't tell much of a speed difference, other than the bloast vs. unbloated kernel diff. I'll be recompiling the fedora bloat kernel shortly and adding in NTFS support.
Fedora Core 5 was released on Monday and it should be on all the usual mirrors. If you're looking for the dvd iso's just download via the torrent, or use one of the redhat combiner scripts for making dvd's. I believe you need the rpm's for the redhat installer dev tools to use the script though. You'll need to download the cd iso's to combine into dvd iso's if you want to use the script.
Anyways, Fedora Core 5 works beautifully.
Save yourself a few days worth of compiling and just install Fedora Core 5.
joelinux
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March 21st, 2006 19:00
I use Gentoo so I'm not relying on scripts I barely understand. It's like driving a stick-shift sports car vs. an Eddie Bauer edition SUV: one allows you total control for a slimmed-down system. The other one allows you the safety of knowing that everything and the kitchen sink is in it. I like to be able to know what is going on with my system. I enjoy the satisfaction of configuring two systems to work together, and tweaking things.
Anyway, turns out after I included "dri" in the USE flag, I needed to recomplied glproto, xorg-server, and xfi810proto. Now I'm getting 1700 fps. Weeee!
This was also after totally botching up a gcc transfer due to human stupidity again. And getting it back. (I RULE!)
Next challenge:
gre tunneling back home.