CentOS - Nov 2007 - Announcing the CentOS on Laptops initiative

Hi all,

I would like to announce a CentOS on Laptops initiative. The aim is to
allow everybody in the community (and on this mailinglist) to document
their own experience with CentOS on their laptop (on the CentOS wiki).


The goal of this initiative consists of 2 parts:

 - help and convince people with their own CentOS on laptop installation

 - promote CentOS on other Laptop websites and fill in this existing void


I hope that everyone think back about the experience on their existing
laptop and add it to the wiki, and document everything when doing future
laptop installations.


<insert your favorite motivational quote here ! :)>

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[Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]

Dag Wieers wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I would like to announce a CentOS on Laptops initiative. The aim is to
> allow everybody in the community (and on this mailinglist) to document
> their own experience with CentOS on their laptop (on the CentOS wiki).
> 
> 
> The goal of this initiative consists of 2 parts:
> 
>  - help and convince people with their own CentOS on laptop installation
> 
>  - promote CentOS on other Laptop websites and fill in this existing void
> 
> 
> I hope that everyone think back about the experience on their existing
> laptop and add it to the wiki, and document everything when doing future
> laptop installations.
> 
> 
> <insert your favorite motivational quote here ! :)>
> 
if you can setup something on the wiki - perhaps a few templates and we 
can all fill in  a few. give people something to look at right off the 
starting blocks, we can then announce this via the centos-announce list 
and on the website etc...

I can definitely fill out atleast 5 different laptop configs that work 
with centos-5.


-- 
Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/  : 2522219 at icq

Dag Wieers wrote:
> I hope that everyone think back about the experience on their existing
> laptop and add it to the wiki, and document everything when doing future
> laptop installations.
Hmmm.

I think we are reaching a stage, where we really have to think about a
different acl model on the wiki ...

Of course we can add a LaptopGroup now, which can edit all pages
underneath there, but I think that stuff is slowly going to kill us ...

Cheers,

Ralph
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On 11/26/07, Dag Wieers <dag at centos.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to announce a CentOS on Laptops initiative. The aim is to
> allow everybody in the community (and on this mailinglist) to document
> their own experience with CentOS on their laptop (on the CentOS wiki).
>
>
> The goal of this initiative consists of 2 parts:
>
>  - help and convince people with their own CentOS on laptop installation
Are you nuts? CentOS on laptop? Why you want to kill torture people in
such a cruel way?

Joy

Dag Wieers wrote:
> I would like to announce a CentOS on Laptops initiative. The aim is to
> allow everybody in the community (and on this mailinglist) to document
> their own experience with CentOS on their laptop (on the CentOS wiki).
> 
> 
> The goal of this initiative consists of 2 parts:
> 
>  - help and convince people with their own CentOS on laptop installation
> 
>  - promote CentOS on other Laptop websites and fill in this existing void
> 
> 
> I hope that everyone think back about the experience on their existing
> laptop and add it to the wiki, and document everything when doing future
> laptop installations.
> 
Dell Latitude D600:
ipw200: eth1:  ipw2100_get_firmware failed -2.

Screen works, haven't tried the tv out.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com

"Matt Shields" <mattboston at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 27, 2007 10:37 AM, Count Of Dracula <countofdracula at
gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> > On 11/26/07, Dag Wieers <dag at centos.org> wrote:
>>     
>>> > > Hi all,
>>> > >
>>> > > I would like to announce a CentOS on Laptops initiative.
The aim is to
>>> > > allow everybody in the community (and on this
mailinglist) to document
>>> > > their own experience with CentOS on their laptop (on the
CentOS wiki).
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > The goal of this initiative consists of 2 parts:
>>> > >
>>> > >  - help and convince people with their own CentOS on
laptop installation
>>>       
>> >
>> > Are you nuts? CentOS on laptop? Why you want to kill torture
people in
>> > such a cruel way?
>> >
>> > Joy
>>     
>
> Because some people may actually want to run a stable OS that will
> have patches released for quite a while.  Fedora is not an option for
> most business people who rely on their laptops every day.  Torture is
> installing the latest Fedora every 6 months and hoping something
> doesn't break.  Some would say Fedora users are nuts.
I think you perfectly described my experience with Fedora on my laptop 
(HP zv6015).  I managed to coerce Fedora 4 onto it (even the install was 
wonky until I learned about nofb).  I got tired of chasing the latest 
Fedora release and moved to CentOS 5 when it was released.  I built a 
custom kernel for a while so the card reader would work until enough 
fixes got back ported that the stock kernel would read the SD card my 
camera uses.  Now everything (sort of) "just works (TM)".  I say
"sort
of" because I'm still running ndiswrapper since every time I've
tried
the bcm43xx kernel module it hasn't worked with my WAP.

With CentOS 5 the laptop seems to be as stable as my desktop.  About the 
only time I ever boot the Windows XP Home partition is if there's a BIOS 
update or something that HP doesn't release any other way.  Can't 
imagine torturing myself with XP.

Cheers,
Dave

-- 
Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
-- Ambrose Bierce

"Bart Schaefer" <barton.schaefer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 28, 2007 7:23 AM, David G. Miller <dave at davenjudy.org>
wrote:
>> > Now everything (sort of) "just works (TM)".  I say
"sort
>> > of" because I'm still running ndiswrapper since every
time I've tried
>> > the bcm43xx kernel module it hasn't worked with my WAP.
>>     
>
> I've had a similar experience with my HP.  Did you manage to get
> NetworkManager and ndiswrapper to co-operate?  I had to disable
> NetworkManager, but it'd be nice to use the profiles rather than
> reconfigure the network when changing access points.
I had it working for a while but it kept getting in the way when I was 
trying to get the bcm43xx module working.  I went back to my old system 
of just having eth0 for the wired connection and eth1 for wireless and 
user controllable.  Other than my home network, I don't have any other 
wireless networks that I connect to on a regular basis so this approach 
lets me manually control what happens when I'm trying to connect to some 
oddball network that I've never seen before and probably won't see
again.

One thing I remember about getting NetworkManager and the piece that 
handles keys (not gnome-keyring; don't remember the name right now and 
the laptop is off) was to tell that piece to use the generic wireless 
kernel API instead of the ndiswrapper control interface.  Seems weird 
but it worked.  If you need more information, I can fire up the laptop 
at some point.

Cheers,
Dave

-- 
Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
-- Ambrose Bierce

> Sadly, for now, you have to request access to be allowed to create or
> edit
> these pages. I hope in the future we will have a more liberal view wrt.
> the wiki.
> 
> PS I created this structure for your X60 for now, I plan to add my own
> laptops soon (but it does not include a X60). If you can add your
> information to this existing page, I am sure this is very valuable for
> another X60 owner.
Can I get a Thinkpad R51 page setup if not already and access.  About to blow
out the FC6 and load CentOS 5 since I have to finagle the wifi every so often. 
Figured document as I go lest I forget.

Trevor

Dag Wieers wrote:
> I hope that everyone think back about the experience on their existing
> laptop and add it to the wiki, and document everything when doing future
> laptop installations.
I created a Template (no, David G. Miller did) at
<http://wiki.centos.org/LaptopTemplate>.

Standard procedure for adding your content goes like this:

a) create yourself a wiki account
b) shout at me to give you editing rights under
   <http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops>
c) Navigate to the page
   <http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Manufacturer/Model> (replacing
   Manufacturer and Model with your Laptop info, for example
   Acer/T8674587G)
d) You are now prompted to create a new page: Please choose
   LaptopTemplate from the list you are presented.
e) Fill out the information
f) Link to the page from the main Laptops page

Thanks, David!

Cheers,

Ralph
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On Wednesday 12 December 2007 15:55:18 Ralph Angenendt
wrote:
> Dag Wieers wrote:
> > I hope that everyone think back about the experience on their existing
> > laptop and add it to the wiki, and document everything when doing
future
> > laptop installations.
>
> I created a Template (no, David G. Miller did) at
> <http://wiki.centos.org/LaptopTemplate>.
>
> Standard procedure for adding your content goes like this:
>
> a) create yourself a wiki account
> b) shout at me to give you editing rights under
>    <http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops>
> c) Navigate to the page
>    <http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Manufacturer/Model>
(replacing
>    Manufacturer and Model with your Laptop info, for example
>    Acer/T8674587G)
> d) You are now prompted to create a new page: Please choose
>    LaptopTemplate from the list you are presented.
> e) Fill out the information
> f) Link to the page from the main Laptops page
>
> Thanks, David!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ralph
I have a HP510 notebook. I run Mandriva Linux on it. Would it be worth me down 
loading the live version of CentOS and adding my experience to the wiki?

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