Re: [CentOS] Best laptop for CentOS

2007-11-11 Thread Niki Kovacs

Count Of Dracula a écrit :


Wireless
---
Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)

Works out-of-box including for WPA/EAP networks.

I have an ASUS laptop with this wireless card. I installed the dkms 
package for the ipw3945 module, and it somehow works, although with one 
minor dysfunction. On bootup, I get an error message about interface 
eth1 not present so its activation will be delayed. That's because the 
dkms module installer only attempts to start *after* network device 
activation.


I wonder how I could possibly solve this annoying situation. Merely 
change the order of activation? If so, how do I do this? (I only know 
how to switch services on / off in different runlevels using 
chkconfig... but how do I change the *order* in which they are launched?)


cheers,

Niki Kovacs
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Re: [CentOS] Best laptop for CentOS

2007-11-11 Thread Steven Haigh

Quoting Niki Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED]:


Count Of Dracula a écrit :


Wireless
---
Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)

Works out-of-box including for WPA/EAP networks.


I have an ASUS laptop with this wireless card. I installed the dkms
package for the ipw3945 module, and it somehow works, although with one
minor dysfunction. On bootup, I get an error message about interface
eth1 not present so its activation will be delayed. That's because the
dkms module installer only attempts to start *after* network device
activation.

I wonder how I could possibly solve this annoying situation. Merely
change the order of activation? If so, how do I do this? (I only know
how to switch services on / off in different runlevels using
chkconfig... but how do I change the *order* in which they are
launched?)


You would be better off disabling all network adapters from coming up  
at boot time and using NetworkManager for establishing network  
connectivity.


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Re: [CentOS] Best laptop for CentOS

2007-11-11 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Nov 11, 2007 9:19 PM, Niki Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I wonder how I could possibly solve this annoying situation. Merely
 change the order of activation? If so, how do I do this? (I only know
 how to switch services on / off in different runlevels using
 chkconfig... but how do I change the *order* in which they are launched?)

This is just to answer your question about how to change the order of
init scripts (not necessarily the solution for the current issue).

If you ls -l /etc/rcX.d (for example /etc/rc3.d for runlevel 3), you
will find symlinks that start with either Kxx or Sxx.  The K is for
kill (stop) and the S is for start.  The number that follows
determines the order in which they are executed.  So you can manually
change the order by replacing that number.

Akemi
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Re: [CentOS] Best laptop for CentOS

2007-11-10 Thread Ioannis Vranos

Ern jura wrote:

Which is the best laptop to run centos on and where can I buy one
without  Windows Vista pre loaded cause I will uninstall it any way.
Please tell me the best sites that ship worldwide.



Regarding hardware specifics, HP is a company that provides Linux 
drivers for all its equipment, so I would begin checking their products 
first.

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Re: [CentOS] Best laptop for CentOS

2007-11-10 Thread Niki Kovacs

Ern jura a écrit :

Which is the best laptop to run centos on and where can I buy one
without  Windows Vista pre loaded cause I will uninstall it any way.
Please tell me the best sites that ship worldwide.


Here I have an ASUS, an HP Pavilion and an older Fujitsu Amilo D, all 
running CentOS 5.0 fine.


Take a peek at http://www.linux-laptop.net to see if/how your hardware 
is supported.


Unfortunately, at least here in France there's no ing way to have a 
laptop without Microsoft Windows installed. I'm 100% GNU/Linux since 
2001 or so, but I must have paid for five or six licenses since.


Cheers,

Niki
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Re: [CentOS] Best laptop for CentOS

2007-11-10 Thread Robert Spangler
On Sat November 10 2007 09:34, Paul wrote:

   Unfortunately, at least here in France there's no ing way to have a
   laptop without Microsoft Windows installed. I'm 100% GNU/Linux since
   2001 or so, but I must have paid for five or six licenses since.

  I thought that I read that someplace over in Europe that MS was forced
  to give credit for un-used windows licenses.  Part of the Europeand
  Anti-trust action IIRC.

I was just thinking the same thing.  I also thought Windows has a sort of buy 
back program in their licenses?  Were if you didn't use it you could return 
it for a refund.


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Re: [CentOS] Best laptop for CentOS

2007-11-10 Thread Matt Shields
On Nov 10, 2007 12:15 PM, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Which is the best laptop to run centos on and where can I buy one
  without  Windows Vista pre loaded cause I will uninstall it any way.
  Please tell me the best sites that ship worldwide.

 I would love to find a Linux laptop that had good wi-fi support.
 Including WPA and using an integrated wi-fi adaptor.  Having to edit a
 file to connect to a secure access point is not user friendly if you
 ask me.


I've found that IBM Thinkpad's have pretty good compatibility with RH
based distro's

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RE: [CentOS] Best laptop for CentOS

2007-11-10 Thread Mark A. Lewis
 I would love to find a Linux laptop that had good wi-fi support.
 Including WPA and using an integrated wi-fi adaptor.  Having to edit a
 File to connect to a secure access point is not user friendly if you
 ask me.

I haven't tried with CentOS, but my new Compaq/HP NC6400 Intel chipset
based wireless worked great with my WPA access point via the GUI on the
Scientific Linux live CD.
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