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by ac on Thursday 09/Sep/2004, @10:16

I'm actually looking to buy a new laptop soon and the nx5000 looks pretty nice (once you up the RAM and get the SXGA+ screen)

My question is about the wireless card. I'm a big fan of Intel's Pro series wireless cards, and they seem to be the only way to get "G" support anyway. What I'm wondering is: would it be possible to order the Linux laptop with the Intel Pro wireless card?

I realize that the Intel drivers are still alpha/unstable, but I'm willing to wait and would not expect HP to help me get it working. Would such an order be possible? If not, I can only imagine that I'd have to order a more expensive Windows laptop and install Linux myself. Would this skew your sales statistics and hurt the chances of this model succeeding with Linux?

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Re: Hardware options
by ac on Thursday 09/Sep/2004, @11:35

If you mean the 1400x1050 resolution with SXGA+ then I can tell you it's not working under Linux. HP has chosen the Intel 855G for the graphics in the nx5000 and the bloody Intel driver reads the resolutions from the BIOS and refuses to run at 1400x1050. I already opened a case for that with HP (which worked reasonably well considering the novelty of the product) and they forwarded the case to Intel. The message from Intel is that there won't be any new Linux driver before December. So, if you consider the high resolution display you should probably wait a bit until this is sorted out. Of course, you can use the 855resolution hack in order to get around it but that won't work with suspend and resume :-(. At least, I couldn't find a way yet to wake up the laptop with the 1400x1050 resolution.

But other than that it works great, including LinDVD. I haven't tested the wireless stuff because that's forbidden in our company.

kk.

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Re: Hardware options
by vb on Thursday 09/Sep/2004, @14:09

I think SUSE recently shipped a patch for this for 9.1 ... at least it was advertised as such.

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Re: Hardware options
by NS on Thursday 09/Sep/2004, @17:11

1400x1050 resolution patch here (below)

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/apoirier/

I think the main criteria for buying a laptop for Linux is the screen resolution, SXGA+ should be the minimum criteria. If you can't get this HP Laptop right now, try buying OEM Asus M3700. You can buy one without MS on it. I just got one 3 months ago, 1400x1050 res PCLinuxOS works on this laptop. It resemble like (Apple iBook is also made by Asus).(Asus also makers of IBM Think and Ipod mini :-)).

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Re: Hardware options
by ac on Thursday 09/Sep/2004, @19:38

As I wrote before, 855resolution is not a complete solution as it doesn't survive a suspend/resume. I haven't found a way yet to patch the BIOS on resume before the X server is restored and the result is that X simply doesn't get restored. So, if you don't care about suspend/resume it works fine but on a laptop suspend/resume is one of the main features so the 855resolution program is NOT a fix for the resolution problem.

kk.

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Re: Hardware options
by anon on Thursday 09/Sep/2004, @15:53

About the wireless card if i'm not wrong it's an intel ipw2200. There is a lovely guy (although he has a greece surname :-P ) from intel that is doing a wonderfool work with wireless intel cards, under GPL, have a look at ipw2100.sf.net. I'm usng his driver for my intel ipw2100 at home where I have a WEP-ed network and it does wonders.
The support I got from him too.
So this card will work just fine.
And, together babies, give him a thank!!!!!

--
tirona rulez :-)

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Re: Hardware options
by Thomas Schneller on Friday 10/Sep/2004, @01:57

>would it be possible to order the Linux laptop with the Intel Pro wireless card?

Sure. Just choose the Intel wireless option. Driver can be found here:

http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/

I've seen it working on several distributions. But as it is not part of the pre-installation HP will not officaly support it.

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Re: Hardware options
by ac on Friday 10/Sep/2004, @08:30

From what I see, Intel wireless is not an option with the Linux model--only with the Windows model.

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Re: Hardware options
by Michael on Saturday 11/Dec/2004, @15:17

I'd love to see the nx5000 w/ Linux include the Intel Pro Wireless 2200 BG instead of the HPW500 as an option. I'd buy it in a second.

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Re: Hardware options
by Michael on Saturday 11/Dec/2004, @15:34

Of course I say that and it's there already. I guess I'll just have to buy it then :-D

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