[ale] Averatec

[Jim]

What model?  I have a V2310 that died trying to install SUse 9.3 64 bit, 
had to install 32 bit.  I've never gotten the wireless to work.  
Ndiswrapper installs OK and looks good, but will dhcp won't pick up an 
address.   Ndiswrapper -l shows the bcmwl5 driver  present and  the 
hardware present, but nothing shows up in ifconfig.  Yast shows the HP 
(ETH-ID-...) (wired device), an entry for "Ethernet network" "wlan0" 
"dhcp"  and an entry "BNC" wlan-id-00-66..." "DHCP".  However ifconfig 
-a only lists eth0, sit0 and lo.  I have no idea how to make this beast 
work.

Also I've never found the magic for the display.  It works OK at 
1024x768 but it's a bit elongated, even though the monitor mode is in 
the 16/10 ratio.  Round things look a little flat. 

Sound took a while to get working.  I had to turn up the PCM control.

So if you've a similar laptop and are more successful than I was, please 
share the bounty.

Jim.

Jeff Hubbs wrote:

>Microcenter has a Compaq AMD64 Turion laptop that we just picked up - 
>it's midway through a Gentoo install now.  The onboard wifi may not be 
>issue-free - seems to have either a third-party driver or ndiswrapper 
>solution. 
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>Jeff
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>>On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 10:37, Geoffrey wrote:
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>>>Wow, a sempron 3000+, I'll bet you can cook eggs on the cover when it's 
>>>on but closed. :)  I'll bet the thing is noisy for a laptop.  Has to 
>>>have some substantial cooling.
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>>When doing a search on the Internet on this unit one of the complaints
>>was heat.  Also another one was turn around on repairs.  Unfortunately
>>if I need my laptop fixed I need it fast so I should just stick to name
>>brands like HP.
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>>Fry's had a small toshiba that was a notebook but much smaller.  Maybe a
>>7" screen.  I liked it but it was $2100.  Amazing price for something so
>>small.  It was a pad so you could use a stylus to write on the screen.  
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>>I'm thinking maybe a DV6000 HP that has a 15.4" screen.  Whatever I buy
>>will have Windows immediately erased and replaced by FC4.
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