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Mandriva Linux 2006 on the Compaq Evo N410c laptop

Installation and use of Mandriva Linux 2006 on the Compaq Evo N410c notebook computer

Last updated: 27th March 2006

General Hardware Specifications of Compaq Evo N410c:

Hardware Components

Status under Linux

Notes

Pentium III M Processor, 1.2 GHz

Works

Speedstep (power saving technology) works fine using Klaptop and standard ACPI, meaning that you can slow down the processor on the fly to 800MHz instead if you want to save battery power.

12" 1024x768 TFT Display

Works

 

ATI 16MB Video (ATI Radeon M)

Works

 

512MB, SDRAM, 2SODIMMs (upgraded from one 256MB SODIMM)

Both configurations work fine

 

40 GB Ultra ATA Hard Drive

Works

 

Floppy Drive in the docking station

Works

 

Integrated Network Card

Works

 

Internal 56k Modem

Works once Lucent Winmodem packages are installed - see below.

See below

24X CD-RW/DVD-Rom Combo in the docking station (HL-DT GCC-4240N)

Works

Install LibDVD CSS to play CDs

Freecom USB2.0 external CD-RW

Works

 

Acer VPN-PP8D24Q USB2.0 external DVD+/-RW drive

Works

 

Internal Battery

Works


Auxiliary 'handle' battery

Works

  

3com OfficeConnect 3CRUSB10075 USB Wireless Network Adaptor

Works

See below

Intel 82801CA-ICH3 Sound Card (Analog Devices AD1886A chip)

Works

Had some sound quality problems using OSS, but ALSA 1.0.9 works fine.

This laptop is operating under Kernel version 2.6.12-12mdk

 

Basic Installation of Mandriva Linux 2006

This is not a tutorial, this is simply to let you all know that Mandriva Linux works fine on the Evo N410c. All standard stuff works fine with a normal CD or DVD installation of Mandriva 2006. I will therefore not bore you with step-by-step instructions, I will simply describe the few little problems I did encounter and (I hope!) the methods of solving them.


Advanced Features and Additional Hardware

56k Lucent Winmodem: This is the built in modem which comes with the Compaq Evo N410c laptop. Luckily, this is one of the windmodems which the open source software community has succesfully reverse-engineered to write a Linux driver for it. You can download the driver here...

http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/ltmodem/kernel-2.6/Mandriva2006RC2.kit.tgz

... and follow the instructions in the howto.txt file.

 

3com OfficeConnect 3CRUSB10075 USB Wireless Network Adaptor: This is strictly speaking nothing to do with the Compaq Evo N410c, this is simply an external USB wireless network card. However now that I know it works with the laptop I might as well document the fact. This card uses the ZyDAS ZD1211 802.11b/g USB WLAN chipset, for which a linux driver is available - see http://zd1211.ath.cx for more info. You can download it from here...

http://zd1211.ath.cx/download/

I used the zd1211-driver-r51.tgz file because this was the current release at the time, but you may wish to use a more recent one now.

Once the driver is installed, the USB network card works fine with Mandriva's wireless networking tools - see the Madnriva Control Center.

 

 
 
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