[CentOS] Announcing the CentOS on Laptops initiative

Wed Nov 28 17:42:31 UTC 2007
Dag Wieers <dag at centos.org>

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:

> Les Mikesell wrote:
> > Dag Wieers wrote:
> >
> > > I would like to announce a CentOS on Laptops initiative. The aim is to
> > > allow everybody in the community (and on this mailinglist) to document
> > > their own experience with CentOS on their laptop (on the CentOS wiki).
> > >
> > >
> > > The goal of this initiative consists of 2 parts:
> > >
> > >  - help and convince people with their own CentOS on laptop installation
> > >
> > >  - promote CentOS on other Laptop websites and fill in this existing void
> > >
> > >
> > > I hope that everyone think back about the experience on their existing
> > > laptop and add it to the wiki, and document everything when doing future
> > > laptop installations.
> > >
> >
> > Dell Latitude D600:
> > ipw200: eth1:  ipw2100_get_firmware failed -2.
> >
> > Screen works, haven't tried the tv out.
>
> hmm, I have a D600 under centos5 and the wireless works fine - in fact
> everything works fine, and I don't remember fighting to get things working
> though it was a while ago
> did you install ipw2200-firmware (from rpmforge)?

This information is exactly what we want on the wiki. So people can extend
and improve it as things change or become known.

So I would prefer if one of you adds this information.

Thanks !
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