New laptop

January 25, 2007 | In: Ничии

I finally got my laptop:

Dell Inspiron 6400
Centrino Core Duo 1.66GHz
512MB RAM, 80GB HDD

15.4″ TrueView (от ония гадни и лъскави екрани)
Broadcom WiFi, 10/100 LAN, SD/MMC… Card reader
A Life Less Ordinary dvd
Bluetooth module and etc.

I settled a Ubuntu 6.06 on it and a little partition with WINDOS XP(don’t blame me). No comments for the Windos installation of the periferials - all of a matter of 20 minutes of clicking.

The Ubuntu setup was a little more complicated since the display was 15.4″, but this publication helped me a lot.

I won’t describe a lot the process in English, since the post is quite well written.
The WiFi is still down as long as the Bluetooth module but will finally be done. Looking for some good case for it and I thing I found some… Will appreciate some help with the bluetooth/WiFi installation



8 Responses to New laptop

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Pascal Klein

January 25th, 2007 at 2.50 pm

Glad to have been of help. :)

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boyan

January 25th, 2007 at 2.57 pm

Hey, Pascal! Can you tell me how did you activate the wifi and the bluetooth, or you havent yet?

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Pascal Klein

January 25th, 2007 at 4.43 pm

You need to install the ipw3945 driver for the wifi card. The bluetooth worked out of the box under Ubuntu. The wifi card and the bluetooth module should work both out of the box under FC6.

Depending on what distribution you run, installing the wifi drivers and such can be annoying or really simple. What are you running?

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Pascal Klein

January 25th, 2007 at 4.55 pm

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Boyan

January 25th, 2007 at 11.15 pm

Sorry for the language, I have this now translated (just go to GO ON READING) UBUNTU 6.06 is up and running… just these two are left…

btw the lspci is:

0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controllers cc=IDE (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
0000:03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
0000:03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd: Unknown device 0832
0000:03:01.1 0805: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
0000:03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd: Unknown device 0843 (rev 01)
0000:03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a)
0000:03:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05)
0000:0b:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 4311 (rev 01)

So I can’t resolv the actual model of the wifi. At the specs it is written as “Dell™ Wireless 1370 802.11b/g”

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Pascal Klein

January 26th, 2007 at 5.49 am

If you have the Inspiron 6400 it will be an Intel Pro Wireless 3945 (ipw3945).

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zEAL

January 26th, 2007 at 11.18 am

As I presumed earlier, the actual model is with a Broadcom chipset (the last line). Here is the ndiswrapper installation howto - http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Installation . The current version of the native drivers is still unstable, so ndiswrapper will have to do the trick - http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/?go=devices

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Pascal Klein

January 27th, 2007 at 5.29 am

D’oh, that sucks. Good luck.

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