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[Laptoplinux-devel] best distro for Averatec 5400

[walt <rac...@co...>]

this is probably not the best place to ask this, but what is the best
linux distro to use for the Averatec 5400? I need the 2.6 kernel and
wifi to work. I have tried mepis 3.3 final and but have to use a safe
mode to boot to the cd. once installed I can use a 2.6 kernel but have
it freezes once in a while and I have to hard boot. Ndiswrapper works in
mepis for me. Knoppix installs completely but won't let me use
ndiswrapper. Slackware uses a 2.4 kernel and I do not know how to
download the 2.6 and I do not want to have to compile a kernel from
source. suggestions please.

thanks

Walt

[Laptoplinux-devel] Re: best distro for Averatec 5400

[Nathan O. <nat...@gm...>]

Slackware actually includes a 2.6 kernel on the second CD. I think
it's preconfigured to be pretty generic, but you'll probably still
have to make&&cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot&& make modules_install.
And update lilo. Or grub, if you've installed that.

While I'm e-mailing this... is this how other people make / install
their kernels? Am I doing anything wrong? It works perfectly for me,
but.... meh, I've just never checked whether that's the proper way.

I love my Slackware, but I don't like just advocating it blindly. I
would tell you to go ahead and seek another distro, but if you hang
around here, Slackware looks poised to be the most supported distro.
If you'd like to help, we'd love to have someone with a 5xxx model
around to help make our kernel compatible with that hardware.


On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 00:52:03 -0500, walt <rac...@co...> wrote:
> this is probably not the best place to ask this, but what is the best
> linux distro to use for the Averatec 5400? I need the 2.6 kernel and
> wifi to work. I have tried mepis 3.3 final and but have to use a safe
> mode to boot to the cd. once installed I can use a 2.6 kernel but have
> it freezes once in a while and I have to hard boot. Ndiswrapper works in
> mepis for me. Knoppix installs completely but won't let me use
> ndiswrapper. Slackware uses a 2.4 kernel and I do not know how to
> download the 2.6 and I do not want to have to compile a kernel from
> source. suggestions please.
> 
> thanks
> 
> Walt
> 
> 
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Re: [Laptoplinux-devel] Re: best distro for Averatec 5400

[Abraham Al-S. <als...@gm...>]

the proper way under 2.6 is make && make modules_install && make
install, unfortuntely, make install doesn't work as expected under
slackware. well, when I say proper way take it with a grain of salt,
might want to say preferred way, or something. anyway, if it works,
that's all that matters.


On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 08:10:37 -0800, Nathan Olberding
<nat...@gm...> wrote:
> Slackware actually includes a 2.6 kernel on the second CD. I think
> it's preconfigured to be pretty generic, but you'll probably still
> have to make&&cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot&& make modules_install.
> And update lilo. Or grub, if you've installed that.
> 
> While I'm e-mailing this... is this how other people make / install
> their kernels? Am I doing anything wrong? It works perfectly for me,
> but.... meh, I've just never checked whether that's the proper way.
> 
> I love my Slackware, but I don't like just advocating it blindly. I
> would tell you to go ahead and seek another distro, but if you hang
> around here, Slackware looks poised to be the most supported distro.
> If you'd like to help, we'd love to have someone with a 5xxx model
> around to help make our kernel compatible with that hardware.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 00:52:03 -0500, walt <rac...@co...> wrote:
> > this is probably not the best place to ask this, but what is the best
> > linux distro to use for the Averatec 5400? I need the 2.6 kernel and
> > wifi to work. I have tried mepis 3.3 final and but have to use a safe
> > mode to boot to the cd. once installed I can use a 2.6 kernel but have
> > it freezes once in a while and I have to hard boot. Ndiswrapper works in
> > mepis for me. Knoppix installs completely but won't let me use
> > ndiswrapper. Slackware uses a 2.4 kernel and I do not know how to
> > download the 2.6 and I do not want to have to compile a kernel from
> > source. suggestions please.
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > Walt
> >
> >
> >
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Re: [Laptoplinux-devel] Re: best distro for Averatec 5400

[Akshun J <ak...@my...>]

Nathan Olberding wrote:

>Slackware actually includes a 2.6 kernel on the second CD. I think
>it's preconfigured to be pretty generic, but you'll probably still
>have to make&&cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot&& make modules_install.
>And update lilo. Or grub, if you've installed that.
>
>While I'm e-mailing this... is this how other people make / install
>their kernels? Am I doing anything wrong? It works perfectly for me,
>but.... meh, I've just never checked whether that's the proper way.
>
>  
>
I always move everything manually.  No install commands.  There's 
certainly not a "proper" way to do it, especially with Slack.

>I love my Slackware, but I don't like just advocating it blindly. I
>would tell you to go ahead and seek another distro, but if you hang
>around here, Slackware looks poised to be the most supported distro.
>If you'd like to help, we'd love to have someone with a 5xxx model
>around to help make our kernel compatible with that hardware.
>
>
>  
>
I second that.  I have no idea what hardware is on the 5xxx series 
Averatec.  Please enlighten us.  Just not tonight, as the alcohol 
(yaeger, red bull, merlot, vodka, not necessarily in that order) will 
soon have its revenge.  Tomorrow will be better...  :-P

--Jaxon

[Laptoplinux-devel] Re: best distro for Averatec 5400

[Nathan O. <nat...@gm...>]

> Please enlighten us.  Just not tonight, as the alcohol
> (yaeger, red bull, merlot, vodka, not necessarily in that order) will
> soon have its revenge.  Tomorrow will be better...  :-P

Yikes, who's having the bachelor party!? :-)


On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 22:00:39 -0600, Akshun J <ak...@my...> wrote:
> Nathan Olberding wrote:
> 
> >Slackware actually includes a 2.6 kernel on the second CD. I think
> >it's preconfigured to be pretty generic, but you'll probably still
> >have to make&&cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot&& make modules_install.
> >And update lilo. Or grub, if you've installed that.
> >
> >While I'm e-mailing this... is this how other people make / install
> >their kernels? Am I doing anything wrong? It works perfectly for me,
> >but.... meh, I've just never checked whether that's the proper way.
> >
> >  
> >
> I always move everything manually.  No install commands.  There's 
> certainly not a "proper" way to do it, especially with Slack.
> 
> >I love my Slackware, but I don't like just advocating it blindly. I
> >would tell you to go ahead and seek another distro, but if you hang
> >around here, Slackware looks poised to be the most supported distro.
> >If you'd like to help, we'd love to have someone with a 5xxx model
> >around to help make our kernel compatible with that hardware.
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> I second that.  I have no idea what hardware is on the 5xxx series 
> Averatec.  Please enlighten us.  Just not tonight, as the alcohol 
> (yaeger, red bull, merlot, vodka, not necessarily in that order) will 
> soon have its revenge.  Tomorrow will be better...  :-P
> 
> --Jaxon
> 
> 

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Re: [Laptoplinux-devel] Re: best distro for Averatec 5400

[walt <rac...@co...>]

On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 08:10 -0800, Nathan Olberding wrote:
> I love my Slackware, but I don't like just advocating it blindly. I
> would tell you to go ahead and seek another distro, but if you hang
> around here, Slackware looks poised to be the most supported distro.
> If you'd like to help, we'd love to have someone with a 5xxx model
> around to help make our kernel compatible with that hardware.

Basic specs:

Mobile AMD Athlon™ XP-M 2800+  LCD Size 15'' XGA TFT Optical Drive DVD
+/-RW Hard Drive 40GB Memory 512MB DDR Wireless LAN 802.11g (RT2500) USB
(4x) 2.0

I joined this list the same day I got this laptop, so I have been a
member for a couple of months now. I just lurk mostly, learning more and
more about this machine. I now have a 2.6 kernel on it and running
slack. sound hasn't been found and I will work on that and wifi. I am
use to Debian based distros. How do you upgrade slack to keep it
current. I know I should be googling to find these answers, but I am
tired and just want to know LOL

Walt

[Laptoplinux-devel] Re: best distro for Averatec 5400

[Nathan O. <nat...@gm...>]

Tired and just want to know? That means the answer's probably going to
hit you in about 15 minutes! Many people, myself included, often make
breakthroughs when it's way past bedtime, or when it's the middle of
the day and you *just* *want* to get *off* the *computer*, but some
stupid problem's nagging you.

To keep current on Slack, it's usually enough to just install the
latest stable version. If you have a carnal lust for the bleeding
edge, I'm sure there are ways to automatically track -current. I've
never been interested in being THAT up to date, though, so I'll leave
that answer to someone else.

About sound: this is a problem on the 3150P as well. Actually, I think
that's the way it is in Slackware in general (you have to run alsaconf
or something like that and set up volumes), but the 3150P's AC97
requires that the kernel module for that device be inserted as a
module with certain parameters. Mine isn't working right now, as I
VERY rarely, if ever, use sound, but once you've got alsa set up with
volumes above zero, you just need to add a line to rc.modules (or like
I do, rc.local) inserting the module with the proper params.

Ah, ya twisted my arm. This might not be something you need, but I'll
post anyway, since it's something every slackware / 3150P user needs
to do:

modprobe snd-via82xx index=3D0 dxs-support=3D2

We should probably include this little fix in whatever packages we're
looking to make.


On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 18:22:52 -0500, walt <rac...@co...> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 08:10 -0800, Nathan Olberding wrote:
> > I love my Slackware, but I don't like just advocating it blindly. I
> > would tell you to go ahead and seek another distro, but if you hang
> > around here, Slackware looks poised to be the most supported distro.
> > If you'd like to help, we'd love to have someone with a 5xxx model
> > around to help make our kernel compatible with that hardware.
>=20
> Basic specs:
>=20
> Mobile AMD Athlon=E2=84=A2 XP-M 2800+  LCD Size 15'' XGA TFT Optical Driv=
e DVD
> +/-RW Hard Drive 40GB Memory 512MB DDR Wireless LAN 802.11g (RT2500) USB
> (4x) 2.0
>=20
> I joined this list the same day I got this laptop, so I have been a
> member for a couple of months now. I just lurk mostly, learning more and
> more about this machine. I now have a 2.6 kernel on it and running
> slack. sound hasn't been found and I will work on that and wifi. I am
> use to Debian based distros. How do you upgrade slack to keep it
> current. I know I should be googling to find these answers, but I am
> tired and just want to know LOL
>=20
> Walt
>=20
>=20
>=20
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>=20

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