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The wireless chipset (Intel 2200BG) has an open-source driver but it requires closed-source firmware; therefore the driver is not in the standard LinuxKernel.
You can download the driver (and the firmware) from http://ipw2200.sf.net, although you will also need to build the ieee80211 support modules which are currently outside of the kernel tree (I think there is a version of them in linux-2.6.13-rc1, so it might be a part of future releases).
-Ubuntu Linux (5.04) already comes with support for this wireless card out of the box, so you should be all ready to go.
+Ubuntu Linux (5.04) already comes with support for this wireless card out of the box, so you should be all ready to go. However, the version of the driver that comes with Hoary does not support [WPA] properly, so either manually compile and install the driver from the above link, or use Ubuntu Breezy (currently in development). See the WirelessNetworkSecurityNotes for more
.
!!Graphics
-The graphics controller uses an Intel 915GM chipset, which is supposedly supported by [XOrg]'s i810 driver. However, it doesn't seem to be properly supported by the version of Xorg in Hoary, and graphics didn't work out of the box. (!!)
+The graphics controller uses an Intel 915GM chipset, which is supposedly supported by [XOrg]'s i810 driver. However, it doesn't seem to be properly supported by the version of Xorg in Hoary, and graphics didn't work out of the box. (!!) GDM starts and runs but nothing is displayed on the [LCD].
-http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/2005-June/008272.html suggests it all works with newer versions of various packages, so hopefully it will just work in the next release of Ubuntu.
+http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/2005-June/008272.html suggests it all works with newer versions of various packages, so hopefully it will just work in the next release of Ubuntu (5.10 "Breezy", due in Oct 2005)
.
For now, use the "vesa" graphics driver. Otherwise, if you really want to use the i810 driver, you can download a newer snapshot of the driver from http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/. I used the
-"i915-20050718-linux.i386" which at least got X working with the i810 driver, but still didn
't
get me accelerated [OpenGL] since it probably wants a
newer version
of [XOrg] installed
. I got
the following message
in /var/log/
Xorg..log:
-<verbatim>
-(EE) I810(): [dri] I830DRIScreenInit failed because of a version mismatch.
-[dri]
libdri version is 4.1.0 bug
version 5..x is needed.
-[dri] Disabling DRI.
-</verbatim>
+"i915-20050718-linux.i386" which at least got X working with the i810 driver. You
'll also need the "common-20050718-linux.i386" to
get newer versions
of Xorg's libdrm.a and GL modules
. (If you install
the driver but don't install the "common" package, you'll get an error
in your
Xorg..log file like "
libdri version is 4.1.0 but
version 5..x is needed")
.
+
But at least it looks like this will all work out of the box in Ubuntu 5.10 aka "Breezy Badger".
(The difficulty in supporting this chip is described in an [xorg thread|http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/2005-March/007151.html].)
+The graphics card lets you use "Xinerama" (dual head) mode so you can have an extra wide desktop that stretches over two monitors.
+See our [i915-xorg.conf] page. (This might possibly require the updated i810/i915 support from above, I didn't test this with the vesa driver).
!! BlueTooth
The laptop has built-in BlueTooth. It appears to be attached to the [USB] internal bus, so make sure your kernel has CONFIG_BT_HCIUSB support. The kernel that came with Ubuntu 5.04 had this.
