Hey Larry,
Had a check at HP, is this the one you got ?
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Product Name dv2125nr
US Product Number RG408UA#ABA
Microprocessor 1.6 GHz AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology TL-50
Microprocessor Cache 2 X 256KB L2 Cache
Memory 1024MB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm)
Memory Max 2048MB
Video Graphics NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 (UMA)
Video Memory up to 128MB (shared)
Hard Drive 120GB 5400RPM (SATA)
Multimedia Drive LightScribe SuperMulti 8X DVD±RW with Double Layer Support
Display 14.1 WXGA High-Definition BrightView Widescreen Display (1280 x
800)
Fax/Modem High speed 56k modem
Network Card Integrated 10/100BASE-T Ethernet LAN (RJ-45 connector)
Wireless Connectivity 802.11b/g WLAN
HP Features HP Imprint finish & HP Pavilion Integrated Microphone
Sound Altec Lansing
Keyboard 101-key compatible
2 Quick Launch Buttons (HP Quick Play Menu and DVD buttons)
Pointing Device Touch Pad with On/Off button and dedicated vertical Scroll
Up/Down pad
PC Card Slots
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This does looks close - and it did run with wireless ???
Do adapter/chip do you have ?
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You also said:
>
> A great many HP/Compaq laptops run Linux very well. For example, I have
> had an HP dv2125nr for about 6 months, and I am using openSUSE 10.2 on it.
> Every piece of hardware works on it using a native Linux driver except for
> the modem and
> the xD card reader.
>
Does this have blue-tooth ?
Here is what I found told about mine:
--Broadcom 4321AGN Wi-Fi Adapter (802.11 a/b/g/ draft-n) w/2 antennas
--( guess one part may be blue-tooth - but I don't have a clue )
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Now, I can still keep it for a week or more ( have a 30 day return deal on it )
Perhaps you
could guide me through some tests ?? Perhaps it could give some info in return
?
Let's design a chip, call it 777 and what we have from earlier, is a 747 - so
we use much of the
same core. This thing above may have some of the same core as the earlier ones.
But something is
added to it.
There was something funny ! I cannot swear it, but during one of my boot-ups,
I think I had
wireless working ! I pulled out the network cable, and it did seem like I
actually were online.
But the sensitivity on the touchpad, the "tapping" setting, had me screw up
everything. I had trouble
with the display settings, and several other things.
I don't know how to set up wlan, the network settings, scripts, etc.
Well, looking at the hardware listed above - they don't seem that far apart.
And I did get this hunch that your machine wouldn't swallow these new kernel
updates. Why does it work on the initial kernels ?
Most of my focus was on the 86_64 capabilities. Would it run that ? Right now
it does on an earlier
Fedora6 kernel. But I didn't have that one back then. Only Fedora7, which did
boot up as far as I know, but the software updater would download a newer
kernel, which had everything go wrong. Same thing with all the Fedora releases.
I don't know why, did notice some different kernel-modules, but else ? I don't
know.
As a check, I downloaded OpenSuse 10.2, the 86x64 version, and it did seem
okay. But I am unfamiliar
with Suse, don't know where I find the startup scripts, and such...so,
confirmed it did run x86_64,
I went back and tried F7.9 test release.
Well, looking at the hardware listed above - they don't seem that far apart.
And I did get this hunch that your machine wouldn't swallow these new kernel
updates. Why does it work on the initial kernels ?
Well, just some idea. Perhaps I could install Suse, replicate your settings
and check it ?
I might be wrong, just to much did happen at the same time in that episode - so
I can't say for sure
if it did get the wlan up. What kernel modules to use, etc.. well, I haven't
done any good test.
//ARNE
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