Re: [CentOS] Announcing the CentOS on Laptops initiative

2007-12-15 Thread John Bowden
On Friday 14 December 2007 12:36:41 Ralph Angenendt wrote: John Bowden wrote: 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? We only have ze5377 and zv6015 at the moment, so yes, why

Re: [CentOS] Announcing the CentOS on Laptops initiative

2007-12-14 Thread John Bowden
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

[CentOS-docs] Re: [CentOS] Announcing the CentOS on Laptops initiative

2007-12-12 Thread Ralph Angenendt
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

RE: [CentOS] Announcing the CentOS on Laptops initiative

2007-12-05 Thread Trevor Benson
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

Re: [CentOS] Announcing the CentOS on Laptops initiative

2007-12-03 Thread Alfredo Perez
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 07:02:40PM +0100, Dag Wieers wrote: On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Johnny Tan wrote: Lorenzo Quatrini wrote: I'm actually using CentOS on 2 laptops, and I have really few issues: on the newer one (a Lenovo) the only thing that doesn't work is sound (I know the newer

Re: [CentOS] Announcing the CentOS on Laptops initiative

2007-12-03 Thread Dag Wieers
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Alfredo Perez wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 07:02:40PM +0100, Dag Wieers wrote: On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Johnny Tan wrote: Lorenzo Quatrini wrote: I'm actually using CentOS on 2 laptops, and I have really few issues: on the newer one (a Lenovo) the only thing that

Re: [CentOS] Announcing the CentOS on Laptops initiative

2007-11-30 Thread Dag Wieers
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Shawn O'Shea wrote: I think it is cool to see this effort undertaken, thanks Dag! :) I may need to install C5 on my Fujitsu that currently has Ubuntu on it. Speaking of which, those guys have been maintaining both official and user submitted laptop reports for awhile so

Re: [CentOS] Announcing the CentOS on Laptops initiative

2007-11-29 Thread David G. Miller
Bart Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 28, 2007 7:23 AM, David G. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.

Re: [CentOS] Announcing the CentOS on Laptops initiative

2007-11-28 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Nov 28, 2007 7:23 AM, David G. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: [CentOS] Announcing the CentOS on Laptops initiative

2007-11-28 Thread Dag Wieers
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: 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

Re: [CentOS] Announcing the CentOS on Laptops initiative

2007-11-28 Thread Dag Wieers
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Johnny Tan wrote: Lorenzo Quatrini wrote: I'm actually using CentOS on 2 laptops, and I have really few issues: on the newer one (a Lenovo) the only thing that doesn't work is sound (I know the newer alsa drivers would work, but I'm too lazy to install them: I'll

Re: [CentOS] Announcing the CentOS on Laptops initiative

2007-11-28 Thread Shawn O'Shea
Dag, is this the correct page? http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/ It is. I forgot to send a link with the announcement :| And are we supposed to do it on our own page and then link to it? Seems like the existing ones are like that. No, I googled for specific keywords to

Re: [CentOS] Announcing the CentOS on Laptops initiative

2007-11-28 Thread Les Mikesell
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: Dell Latitude D600: ipw200: eth1: ipw2100_get_firmware failed -2. Screen works, haven't tried the tv out. hmm, I have a D600 under centos5 and the wireless works fine - in fact everything works fine, and I don't remember fighting to get things working

Re: [CentOS] Announcing the CentOS on Laptops initiative

2007-11-27 Thread Count Of Dracula
On 11/26/07, Dag Wieers [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: [CentOS] Announcing the CentOS on Laptops initiative

2007-11-27 Thread Matt Shields
On Nov 27, 2007 10:37 AM, Count Of Dracula [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/26/07, Dag Wieers [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: [CentOS] Announcing the CentOS on Laptops initiative

2007-11-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
Johnny Tan wrote: One (more general, not CentOS-specific) problem that I have is that there's no network profile manager. Traveling among 4 different locations (none with DHCP) means constantly going in and changing my network settings. Anyone know of a program to do something like what OS X

Re: [CentOS] Announcing the CentOS on Laptops initiative

2007-11-27 Thread Les Mikesell
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

Re: [CentOS] Announcing the CentOS on Laptops initiative

2007-11-27 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Les Mikesell wrote: 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

[CentOS] Announcing the CentOS on Laptops initiative

2007-11-25 Thread Dag Wieers
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