From rgiles at centurytel.net  Wed Jul 12 05:20:52 2006
From: rgiles at centurytel.net (Rikke D. Giles)
Date: Tue Jul 11 21:20:53 2006
Subject: [Noplug] [kplug-general] New Laptop:  LC2440N
Message-ID: <1143691252l.3470l.0l@rose>

Wow!  It came today.  It's beeeuuuuuuteeefulll!  For those who didn't  
see the handout at the meeting this is a Linux Certified LC2440N  
laptop; their 'desktop workstation' version.  See its stats here:
http://www.linuxcertified.com/linux-laptop-lc2440n.html

I'm quite impressed by it.  No Windows stickers on it (but it has an  
Nvidia sticker, how cool is that?).  Big huge screen, fast, and easy,  
very easy.

The hardest part about getting online with the integrated wireless  
was having to remember what I'd named the network.  Had to log into  
the big computer to log into the linksys to figure that one out.   
What I get for not writing these things down!  Once those were input,  
away I went.  No configuration, no nothing.

The MAC address for the ethernet card was wrong for some reason.  I  
just used the network program and fixed it by having it probe for a  
new address.  It was throwing errors on boot before I did that.  And  
that's the only thing I have found that was 'wrong' with it out of  
the box.

It comes with a few pages of customizing information.  Basically the  
handouts tell what software they used to make the bits and pieces  
work.  For instance, it's got Intel HD Audio, and the driver for that  
is snd-hda-intel.  The network card is a Realtek 8169, uses driver  
r8169 and so on.  Also included, under the /root directory, is the  
software needed to get everything working, in case you have to  
reinstall.  They instruct you to back this up.  They also include a  
custom kernel, with the proper modules added to make the suspend  
stuff work, and they have information about what makes the hotkeys  
work (which worked!  I pressed one and up popped firefox, Woot!).

So, I have it all customized to look like I want, and Firefox now has  
it's million extensions which I NEED, hehehehe.

So I'm gonna break it now.  It has everything under FC4 installed,  
everything, including KDE.  Now I know we've some KDE fanboys here,  
so I'll not say anything much but... it's gotta go.

I thought about going through and removing all the unwanted stuff by  
hand, even installed yumex right away to help with that, but I gave  
up.  Too slow and I'm left with the niggling doubt that it's still  
there, but I just can't 'see' it.  So, I guess I get to reinstall the  
whole OS.  What is cool is that the HD came partitioned sensibly, so  
I won't erase the customizations I've done already.

Of course, this is all predicated on the assumption of my ability to  
fix what I break.  Never held me back before!! (she said, as she  
stared into the abyss of driver hell).

Cheers,
Rikke
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