How to for Fedora9 HP6515b
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How to for Fedora 9
This is a MIT,Manipal specific How-to for fedora 9. Basically deals with the HP6515b currently. Please feel free to add to it or modify it. Just leave an update at the LUGManipal forums concerning it.
This is a very basic setup. If you run into problems that this does not solve please post on the forum. We will solve it for you or place a link that does. You can use advanced settings once you understand enough yourself :-)
Obtaining Fedora 9
You can obtain it from a lot of sources.The easiest method would be to ask someone in your hostel itself :) . You can also contact us on the forums or download it from the fedora torrents.
Torrent link [torrent.fedoraproject.org]
When at home you can refer here ::
Fedora Free Media program for India[1]
Fedora Local Contacts Program for India[2]
Setting it up
The 6515b is not one of the best laptops for Fedora 9. Takes a little bit of work. This setting up process, however, ends up teaching newbies enough to use fedora properly.
Installation
Fedora 9 supports graphical installation on the 6516b. Follow the steps. It is pretty simple.
1. Clear up some space (about 10 Gb should do)
2. If you use VISTA you can shrink the windows partition : right click on My Computer >> Manage >> Disk Management . This does sometimes get sticky though.
3. Install using the DVD. Use the MBR for grub for now.
Making her usable
Once fedora has finished installing and you've had your first look at it, its time to start making it usable i.e, NDISWRAPPER, CODECS etc.
NDISwrapper
What is it? [3]
What you need
The packages (for x86_64)needed are listed here , 64bit ,32 bit.. Download them using another machine that has the internet working.. Youll need to right-click and do a "save target as"
If the other machine is running fedora, you can use the command ::
wget "above links"
Install them using..
rpm -Uvh *ndis*
They shouldn't give depsolving errors etc.
We now need to install the driver.. : run these commands one at a time..
su -
ndiswrapper -i filepath to bcmwl5.inf
To check..
ndiswrapper -l
This should give a message that says the driver is installed. Then :
modprobe ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper -m
ndiswrapper -ma
ndiswrapper -mi
echo "blacklist ssb" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
echo "blacklist b43" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
This should get the wifi running.
Fedora does not provide properietary codecs necessary for playing MP3 etc in its DVD. Why?? [4]
In order to install most packages using YUM, we need to first install the LIVNA package :
su -c 'rpm -Uhv http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm'
In order to setup other things such as Amarok , VLC, XINE , there already are a lot of blogs you can refer to. Or just google..
Here are some..
djs blog [5]
OS's [ankurs.com]
Ankur's blog [6]
Please refer to the forums [7] for any help or queries.
Enjoy Open Source!!
