Fedora 7 on HP nc2400
all of my hebrew readers . please excuse me , but because i want to make this post handy for other nc2400 users - i will post it in english.
i have got my hands on a new HP NC2400 laptop that replaced my older Dell D620 laptop. and here is how i set up my fedora 7 on it.
first of all ... i must admit - almost everything worked out of the box . which is quite amazing for a branded laptop ... maybe the only 2 things that didnt work were the wireless "Intel IPW945/PRO Wireless (rev 2.0) wireless card , and the AutheTed fingerprint reader . well since i do not use the fingerprint reader - i did not even set it up , so excuse me all of you finger print users.
my set up is quite simple - gnome with beryl , 2.6 kernel and the rest are networking\pentesting tools ... that are not worth mentioning
wifi -
i am thinking of how to give you the easiest way to bring it up ...
well its easy ...
fist esit the file "/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist file and add the following lines :
--
#IPW3945
blacklist iwl3945
blacklist mac80211
--
and reboot it ...
then add the "freshrpms.net" repository ... and run "yum search ipw3945"
install the dkms package , the ipw3945d package and the ipw3945 firmware package ...
reboot and your done .
the 12.1 inch resolution was also automatic , so no use for 915_resolution tool , you may want to install the wpa_supplicant tool in order to connect to wpa2 easier.
i would also recommend running the NetworkManager tool to manage the network connections from within gnome . i personally disabled the eth1 ( the wifi interface ) automatic dhcp via the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 file
thats about it . everytning is running fine , yum update rand perfectly , and its a gogogo from now on.
enjoy linux.
Labels: english, linux, technology
