[SOLVED] HP pavillion

[loanwolf]

I am kinda pretty new to Linux all tho i did use mandrake 9 as a server 6 or so years ago but didn't really use the system much after i had it set up but with all the crap going on with Microsoft i have decided to try and move to Linux permanently and in doing my research and thure some trial and error with a few deferent brands i found my way to here downloaded and tried the live CD and decided that this is the one i want to try and learn because it looks like what i was used to but my wireless will not come on i will give as much info as i can but remember i don't know much about Linux

my notebook is a hp pavilion dv4 i believe the tag with it on it is gone sorry if it becomes really in portent i can find it on the bottom also any one really good with this software wants to help teach me i would love that

[doktor5000]

Please show the output of

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lspcidrake -v | grep NET

[loanwolf]

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r8169           : Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.|RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [NETWORK_ETHERNET] (vendor:10ec device:8136 subv:103c subd:30fb) (rev: 02)
ssb             : Broadcom Corporation|BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [NETWORK_OTHER] (vendor:14e4 device:4315 subv:103c subd:137c) (rev: 01)

Edit 11-12-2011-13:23:
Can you please place output in code-blocks a next time?
This makes it all somehow better to read, thank you.

~isadora

[doktor5000]

You need to blacklist some driver modules, currently the device is being handled by a completely wrong driver.
Please open up a terminal, use

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su -

and supply your root password, and run the following command:

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echo "blacklist ssb" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-compat

Maybe you want to have a look in a thread about the same wireless device:
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=1565

[loanwolf]

ok thanks for the information i run the comand and now it lists 2 sets of wireless drivers ill read other post im shure i can figure it out if not i will just run it on a wire i plan to only use this system for a media server any way


ok i got it working whoooo hoooo thanks for the help on it and if you know a websight that is windows reader friendly to teach linux so i could read up i would be greatfull

[tallship]

...and if you know a websight that is windows reader friendly to teach linux so i could read up i would be greatfull

lolwut?

Just like any second language you study, at some point you're going to have to just knuckle down and immerse yourself in the culture, and deal with the necessity to communicate in that language. i.e., At a restaurant, if you can't ask for food in that language you might not eat what you wanted to.

What you are saying is that you want to learn Linux (UNIX). Okay so let's dive in! But toe first, in baby steps...

http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz will get you off the ground *correctly*, so you actually understand, both operationally and in terms of the basic philosophy.

In the meantime you're going to explore with your GUI, those things that are native to Mageia. The rute book will take you under the hood where you need to be able to poke your head around now and then. Every car needs new spark plugs and an oil change from time to time.

Oh, and this has been a firmware issue with HP Laptops for quite some time now, on several distributions. So don't feel bad

I hope that helps

Kindest regards,

[tallship]

I'm sorry. Use what? An HP Pavillion?

Basically, it's just an X86-based PC, right? So yes, you can run Solaris, Linux, DOS, some versions of Windows (depending upon your machine's resources), or one of the BSDs.

I no longer recommend that anyone setup dual boot on machines anymore. The main reason? Because you can only run one or the other operating system, and do not have access (for the most part) to the programs of the other installed operating system until you shutdown and boot to that other OS.

Instead, I recommend that people use VirtualBox or KVM, create virtual machines and install additional operating systems that way - so as to be able to take advantage and run both (or more) operating systems simultaneously.

You can start/stop/pause, and snapshot iterations of your various running operating systems in time. In fact, pausing an operating system ensures that there is no boot time the next time you want to use it, and when you unpause that OS it begins execution at the next line of code, oblivious to the fact that it may have been paused for several months.

One problem with that. When you unpause an OS, it may become a bit confused when it discovers that, as far as it is concerned, the system date and time has changed dramatically in the space of what it thinks is a nanosecond. To fix this, one would simply open a terminal in most Unices and do the following:

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joeuser@mybox:~$ su -
root@mybox:~# date
Thu Jan 17 04:43:04 PST 2013
root@myboxr:~# ntpdate ntp.ucsd.edu
17 Jan 04:45:19 ntpdate[23191]: step time server 132.239.1.6 offset 125.277730 sec
root@mybox:~# date
Thu Jan 17 04:45:25 PST 2013


Depending upon your system's resources (The amount of RAM is the most critical consideration), you can be running two, three, or four operating systems simultaneously w/o issue. On an older Pavillion running say, Windows XP, you should be able to effectively run a Linux guest OS simultaneously that has been allocated, for example, 512MBytes RAM, when the physically installed memory in your machine has 2GBytes RAM - without issue.

Of course, YMMV, and you may receive cautionary notes not to allocate more than half of your RAM to the virtual machines. If you do, you may see bizzare, or slugglish behaviour.

I hope that helps

Kindest regards,

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