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<page-title title="Installing WBEL4 (RHEL4) on an Averatec 6200 Laptop « Linux Resources" />
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<h1>Installing WBEL4 (RHEL4) on an Averatec 6200 Laptop</h1>
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<aside>
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<p>
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<strong>Topics:</strong><br>
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<a href="#what">What Do I Have?</a><br>
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<a href="#partitioning">Partitioning</a><br>
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<a href="#installing">Installation</a><br>
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<a href="#video">Video</a><br>
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<a href="#wireless">Wireless Networking</a><br>
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<a href="#tweaks">Other Tweaks</a><br>
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<a href="#left">What’s Left?</a>
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</p>
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</aside>
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<p>
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As an early Father’s Day 2005 present, I received a new Averatec 6240 laptop. Being the Linux enthusiast
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that I am, within 24 hours of getting it, I had wiped the Windows XP Home Edition® that came on it. The
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previous week, I had downloaded <a href="http://www.whiteboxlinux.org">White Box Enterprise Linux
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(http://www.whiteboxlinux.org)</a> version 4, with an eye to upgrading my existing computer, so I had a recent set
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of CDs burned already. (WBEL is a clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, as is CentOS, so these instructions may be
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helpful for all RHEL derivatives.) I’ve organized this into topics – just click one to jump right to
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it.
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</p>
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<p>
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<small><em>(Note: This information is provided as information only, and a reflection of what I did to get my
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laptop running the way I wanted it. It may or may not work for you – no guarantee is specified or implied,
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and I cannot be held responsible for any hardware failure or data loss you may encounter by following any of the
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steps in this guide. At any rate, it’s still probably worth double what you’re paying for
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it… ;>)</em></small>
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</p>
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<p>
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<del>
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<strong>A Work in Progress</strong> – This page is not complete – check the “What’s
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Left?” topic to see what changes still need to be made before I’ll consider it
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“complete”.
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</del>
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This page is as complete as it’s ever going to be.
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</p>
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<h2><a name="what"></a>What Do I Have?</h2>
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<p>
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To determine what type of hardware you have, you can use the command <tt>/sbin/lspci</tt>. On this laptop, I was
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able to boot with <a href="http://wwww.knoppix.com">Knoppix</a>, one of the most feature-rich Linux Live CD
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distributions out there. The list on this laptop is shown below…
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</p>
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<blockquote>
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<pre>0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 760/M760 Host (rev 03)
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0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SG86C202
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0000:00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS85C503/5513 (LPC Bridge) (rev 25)
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0000:00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
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0000:00:02.6 Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Modem Controller (rev a0)
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0000:00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller (rev a0)
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0000:00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
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0000:00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
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0000:00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
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0000:00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91)
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0000:00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
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0000:00:0e.0 Network controller: RaLink Ralink RT2500 802.11 Cardbus Reference Card (rev 01)
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0000:00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
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0000:00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
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0000:00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
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0000:00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
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0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 661FX/M661FX/M661MX/741/M741/760/M760 PCI/AGP</pre>
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</blockquote>
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<p>
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This may seem like a waste of time (especially if you don’t have a Knoppix CD lying around already, but this
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information can be invaluable when you try to get these devices working. A couple of things jump out from the
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above list – most of the hardware in this box was made by Silicon Integrated Systems, with the notable
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exception of the cardbus controller and the 802.11 (wireless) network adapter.
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</p>
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<h2><a name="partitioning"></a>Partitioning</h2>
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<p>
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Partitioning was a particular concern for me, as I wanted to set up a dual-boot Windows/Linux installation.
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Windows must have its files on the first partition for it to successfully boot, so I set up Windows first. I
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messed up a bit, as I tried to declare a 100MB boot partition as the first partition. Windows insisted on
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formatting it, so it could put its boot files on it, so I basically have a wasted 100MB at the front of my drive.
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(Not a big deal…)
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</p>
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<p>
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I created a 12GB partition for Windows, and a 15GB partition for “shared” data – I formatted it
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as FAT32 (vfat), so that both Windows and Linux can read it. This was fine, but combined with my extra 100MB
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partition, the WBEL installer was unable to automatically partition the remaining free space. This
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isn’t a big problem – there’s are two pretty simple rules to remember about partitions that
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Linux needs…
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</p>
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<ul>
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<li>
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There must be a root (“/”) partition (I calculated the size of this by subtracting the amount of
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swap space I needed (see the next rule), then allocating the remaining free space to the root partition)
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</li>
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<li>
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There must be a swap partition (actually the “swap” filesystem type) that is twice as big as your
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RAM (for this machine, that meant 1024MB)
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</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Here is my current partition table…</p>
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<blockquote>
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<pre># /sbin/fdisk -l
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Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
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255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
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Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
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/dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 6 FAT16
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/dev/hda2 14 7295 58492665 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
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/dev/hda5 14 1580 12586896 7 HPFS/NTFS
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/dev/hda6 1581 3589 16137261 b W95 FAT32
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/dev/hda7 3590 7158 28667961 83 Linux
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/dev/hda8 7159 7289 1052226 82 Linux swap</pre>
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</blockquote>
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<h2><a name="installing"></a>Installing</h2>
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<p>
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Installing Linux is naturally the first thing you’ll need to do. However, the default install options did
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not work for me. What did work was <tt>linux nofb xdriver=sis</tt>. This tells anaconda to not use a framebuffer
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(which, as I read, is incompatible with most of the LCD flat-panels that laptops have), and to use the
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“sis” (Silicon Integrated Systems) driver. Even with this, the installer will not detect the SiS video
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card or the flat-panel display – but that’s okay, just let it install with the VESA driver and a
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generic 1024×768 layout. It’ll be stretched, but definitely readable. (See the “video”
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topic for how to fix this.) Also, if you really mess something up, you’ll need to pass those parameters in
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the rescue mode – the full command is <tt>linux rescue nofb xdriver=sis</tt>.
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</p>
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<p>
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I picked the server install, and selected most packages – this setup allows me to run both GNOME and KDE,
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and build applications for either. Be sure to install the system files, so you can compile kernel modules if you
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need them (which you’ll need to do for the xdriver and wireless driver). Do not skip the OpenOffice.org I18N
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libraries – even though they’re huge, it won’t run without them. (I learned that the hard way.)
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</p>
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<h2><a name="video"></a>Video</h2>
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<p>
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I mentioned that during the install, the monitor would not be detected. Using the system viedo config, you can set
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the LCD panel to 1280×800. Then, head over to <a href="http://www.winischhofer.at/linuxsisvga.shtml">Thomas
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Winischhofer’s site about the SiS video driver</a>. He is the author of the SiS driver that’s
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distributed with Linux, and his site has a lot of information about this chipset. On his site, he has built on
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that base, in his own time, and created a very usable driver for the SiS chipset. There are links to download
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various products – I downloaded the driver and the sisctrl program, and built them.
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</p>
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<p>
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Once I restarted the machine, it was better, but not quite there. I posted on the forums (also on the Winischhofer
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site) about my problem, and the author himself responded
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(<a href="http://www.winischhofer.at/sisforum/viewtopic.php?t=76">the thread is here</a>). In my case,
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1280×800 was not put in by the driver – but, I think it may have been because I hadn’t set the
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LCD panel settings when I installed the driver.
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</p>
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<h2><a name="wireless"></a>Wireless Networking</h2>
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<p>
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The RaLink wireless ethernet card has a very capable open-source driver. It can be downloaded from
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<a href="http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page">SerialMonkey’s web site</a>. I downloaded
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the driver, followed the instructions, and couldn’t get it to work. It installed the adapter as ra0, but
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Linux was finding it as eth1 - and I couldn’t get eth1 to change to ra0, or ra0 to change to eth1. I finally
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posted a message on the
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<a href="http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1294781&forum_id=370891">driver’s
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SourceForge.net forums</a>, and the author told me that I needed to use <tt>make install-fedora</tt> instead of
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just <tt>make install</tt>.
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</p>
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<p>
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Every so often, I had problems getting the wireless card to connect with my home LAN. I changed my DHCP lease
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times from two weeks to two hours, and that problem cleared up. I think, for some reason, the router was not
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sensing when the wireless card would disconnect – so, when it tried to connect again, the router would just
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ignore it. Windows didn’t seem to have similar problems, but that’s a small tweak to make that
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hasn’t affected any of the other computers on the network. I have gotten good responses from the developers
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of the wireless driver, and hope to be able to help them track this down if they’re interested. (They are
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concentrating most of their new work on a new driver called “rt2x00″ that will work for all RaLink
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RT2400 and RT2500 series network adapters, so this feature may be available in them. They’ve also moved
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their forums - <a href="http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/phpBB2/index.php">the official support forms can be found
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here</a>.)
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</p>
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<h2><a name="tweaks"></a>Other Tweaks</h2>
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<p>They’ll be here soon!</p>
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<h2><a name="left"></a>What’s Left?</h2>
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<p>Issues I’m still working on…</p>
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<ul>
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<li>
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<strong>PCMCIA</strong> – This is so slow initializing that rhgb (Red Hat’s graphical booter)
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actually switches back to console one. I’m sure there’s a way to make it not take so long, I just
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need to figure out what it is.
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</li>
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<li>
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<strong>Audio Input</strong> – I tried to use the microphone in jack, and nothing would take sound from
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it.
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</li>
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<li>
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<strong>Shared Data Between XP and WBEL</strong> – This is working differently than WBEL3 did – once
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I figure it out, it’ll be here too
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</li>
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</ul>
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<script>
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import PageTitle from '@/components/PageTitle.vue'
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export default {
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name: 'averatec',
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components: {
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PageTitle
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}
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}
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</script>
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<style scoped>
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aside {
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float: right;
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width: auto;
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border: solid 2px navy;
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border-right: none;
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padding: 5px;
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border-radius: 10px;
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aside p {
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<template lang="pug">
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article
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page-title(title="Linux Resources")
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h1 Linux Resources
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p We at DJS Consulting love Linux! Below are the resources we provide.
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p.
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»
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#[router-link(:to="{ name: 'Averatec' }" title="Installing WBEL4 (RHEL4) on an Averatec 6200 Laptop - DJS Consulting Linux Resources") Installing Linux on an Averatec 6200 Laptop]
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p.
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»
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#[router-link(:to="{ name: 'XineRPMs' }" title="xine RPMs for EL / x86_64 Architecture - DJS Consulting Linux Resources") xine RPMs for the x86_64 EL Architecture]
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p.
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»
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#[a(href="//hosted.djs-consulting.com/software" title="DJS Consulting Software Repository") DJS Consulting Software Repository]
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p.
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»
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#[a(href="//techblog.djs-consulting.com/category/linux" title="Linux - DJS Consulting Tech Blog") Linux posts]
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on the #[a(href="//techblog.djs-consulting.com" title="DJS Consulting Tech Blog") DJS Consulting Tech Blog]
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<script>
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import PageTitle from '@/components/PageTitle.vue'
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export default {
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name: 'linux',
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components: {
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PageTitle
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}
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}
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<template lang="pug">
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article
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page-title(title="xine RPMs « Linux Resources")
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h1 xine RPMs for EL / x86_64 Architecture
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p.
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The xine RPMs are now distributed through the #[a(href="//techblog.djs-consulting.com") DJS Consulting Tech Blog].
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Information about the RPMs can be found in the
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#[a(href="//techblog.djs-consulting.com/2005/about-the-xine-rpms.html" title="About the xine RPMs") About the xine RPMs]
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post there, including how you can use RSS or Atom feeds to be notified of updated builds.
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p.
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You can also
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#[a(href="//techblog.djs-consulting.com/category/hosted-64-bit-software/xine-rpms" title="xine RPMs") view the list of available RPMs]
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or simply #[a(href="//hosted.djs-consulting.com/software/xine" title="xine RPMs") browse the available xine files].
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</template>
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<script>
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import PageTitle from '@/components/PageTitle.vue'
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export default {
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name: 'xine-rpms',
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components: {
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PageTitle
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}
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}
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</script>
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import ApplicationList from '@/components/ApplicationList'
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import FourOhFour from '@/components/FourOhFour'
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import Linux from '@/components/linux/Linux'
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import Averatec from '@/components/linux/Averatec'
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import XineRPMs from '@/components/linux/XineRPMs'
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Vue.use(Router)
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export default new Router({
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{ path: '/', name: 'Home', component: Home },
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{ path: '/applications/:app', name: 'Application', component: Application, props: true },
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{ path: '/applications', name: 'ApplicationList', component: ApplicationList },
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{ path: '/linux/installing-wbel4-rhel4-on-an-averatec-6200-laptop', name: 'Averatec', component: Averatec },
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{ path: '/linux/xine-rpms-for-el-x86_64-architecture', name: 'XineRPMs', component: XineRPMs },
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{ path: '/linux', name: 'Linux', component: Linux },
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{ path: '*', name: 'FourOhFour', component: FourOhFour }
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]
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})
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