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Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Linux on the Acer Travelmate 4104

for now only hardware info. ...more about how did i get all working ...soon ..i hope

System features:
Intel Pentium M 760 (2.0GHz/2M/FSB533)
Intel 915PM/915GM Express chipset
DDR II 512MB (1x512)
15.4" WXGA TFT (1280x800)
64MB ATI MOBILITY RADEON X700
80GB 4.2K, DVD-Dual DL
fast Ethernet, 802.11b/g, IEEE 1394 port
# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 04)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 04)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 04)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 04)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 04)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 04)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 04)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 04)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d4)
00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 04)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility X700 (PCIE)
06:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller
06:01.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
06:01.3 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx21 Integrated FlashMedia Controller
06:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)
06:08.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T (rev 02)

# acpitool -e
Kernel version : 2.6.16.16-ACPI version : 20060127
-----------------------------------------------------------
Battery #1: present
Remaining capacity : 3889 mAh, 100.0%
Design capacity: 4300 mAh
Last full capacity : 3889 mAh, 90.44% of design capacity
Capacity loss: 9.558%
Present rate: 0 mA
Charging state: charged
Battery type: rechargeable, LION
Model number: ZL08
Serial number: 20172
Battery #2: slot empty

AC adapter: on-line
Fan: 

CPU type: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz
CPU speed: 800.000 MHz
Bogomips: 1597.96
Processor ID: 0
Bus mastering control: yes
Power management: yes
Throttling control: yes
Limit interface: yes
Active C-state: C2
C-states (incl. C0): 5
Usage of state C1: 10 (0.0 %)
Usage of state C2: 12742177 (52.8 %)
Usage of state C3: 2790848 (11.6 %)
Usage of state C4: 8614590 (35.7 %)
T-state count: 8
Active T-state: T0

Thermal zone 1 : ok, 45 C
Trip points :
-------------
critical (S5):97 C
passive:93 C: tc1=2 tc2=3 tsp=40 devices=0xdfe07e40


DeviceSleep stateStatus
---------------------------------------
1. RP014disabled
2. RP024disabled
3. RP044disabled
4. USB13disabled
5. USB23disabled
6. USB33disabled
7. USB43disabled
8. USB73disabled
9. LANC4disabled
10. MODM3disabled

Sunday, July 23, 2006

ipw2200 wifi card and wpa encryption (updated)

I had some difficulties getting my ipw2200 wifi card to work under linux. Although I found so much info about it on internet, i got a little confused about whats needed to get it working. Anyway thats a past now... here is a how-to.

Firmware
Get firmware from http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net (v2.4)
and extract it to /lib/firmware/

Update:
i upgraded kernel to 2.6.17.6 and card it's not working anymore with firmware 2.4. You have to install FW 3.0 version to get it working again. Previously i was using kernel version 2.6.16.19.

Modules
load modules: 
modprobe ieee80211
modprobe ipw2200
and uncomment same lines in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules for automatic loading on startup. (thats for slackware based distros)

you can check now if modules are loaded ok by 
dmesg | grep ipw
you should get something like this: 
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, git-1.0.8
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2005 Intel Corporation
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
for enabling radio off/on switch add this to /etc/modprobe.conf 
options ipw2200 led=1
Configuration (wpa_supplicant is required)

/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf should look something like this: 
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
network={
	ssid="wlan_name"
	scan_ssid=1
	proto=WPA
	key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
	psk="password"
}
Usage
i hope you have your router setup with wpa encryption and dhcp.
in my case ipw2200 is on eth1

start 
wpa_supplicant -B -i eth1 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -D wext
dhcpcd -d eth1
if everything is setup ok you should get an ip from dhcp server.
happy wireless surfing ;-)

Friday, January 05, 2007

RaLink RT2500 wifi card and wpa encryption

i always forget how to setup a my realtek rt2500 wifi card, so i decided to write it down.

get drivers from http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com

build module 
cd Modules
make
make install
echo 'alias ra0 rt2500' >> /etc/modprobe.conf
modprobe rt2500
and here is the configuration 
iwconfig ra0 essid your_essid
iwpriv ra0 set AuthMode=WPAPSK
iwpriv ra0 set EncrypType=TKIP
iwpriv ra0 set WPAPSK="password"
dhcpcd -d ra0

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Simple screenshot tool

I was missing a screenshot tool on my xfce zenwalk desktop. Every time i want to took a quick screen shot i have to ran Gimp to do it and what's quite inconvenient. I was just started playing with python and gtk and i found some easy way to take a screen shot with gtk tools, so i decided to make a small app. It's first thing i ever made with python or gtk so don't expect too much. hope you like it

Screenshot:
system_info.jpg

Update:
source : zenshot-0.6.tar.gz
zenwalk package : zenshot-0.6-noarch-50.1.tgz md5 dep

discussion forum: http://support.zenwalk.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=5993

ChangeLog:
* v 0.6 (31.10.2007)
- new name zenshot

* v 0.5 (13.02.2007)
- fixed filename date time to localtime

* v 0.4 (11.02.2007)
- added shot delay

* v 0.3 (10.02.2007)
- window iconify back to window hide because of issues with beryl

* v 0.2 (10.02.2007)
- fix window hide issue (screenshot app window wasn't hidden in time)
- window hide changed to iconify (minimise)

* v 0.1 (08.02.2007)
- first release
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