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wi-fi is my daddy.
Thanks a lot. I guess, I would never be able to install Linux to my new ze5385 without your instructions. I did exactly what you said and that is it, fortunately I made it work :) However, I have one more problem while shutting down the unit. The screen freezes trying to attempt to unload the kernel card services. I am not sure about that, but at least, the last line before freezing is the following:
"Stopping pcmcia: Unloading Kernel Card Services"
So, I have to close the unit manually. Did you have the same problem? Any idea about that? Also I will be waiting for your suggestions about running X.
Thanks again.
Menal.
Menal
as well, the side-effect of kudzu not working is that the CD-RW isn't detected at all. i haven't bothered yet as far as manually mounting/unmounting though, so i don't know yet if i'll be able to fundamentally get it working...if after my current client engagement i have some time (and someone else hasn't done it already or the next 2.6 kernel fixes our problems) i'd like to spend some time looking at the actual code to see what could be causing the hang.
good to hear the advice got you going! i guess i'll boot into linux now and attach the XF86config i use here. :)
j.
Help!?!?
thanks
j.
"X -configure" from the command line, and then
use the XF86Config file that it generated (by
placing it in /etc/X11). Rename the old one first!
Parag
as for wifi--i haven't really booted into linux lately since i've been working! :) when i get a chance i'll take a look--anyone else--post findings here.
Any luck with fixing the "Stopping pcmcia: Unloading Kernel Card Services" hangs? I also have to manually reboot mine.
Mike
should be something like
chkconfig pcmcia off
or whatever...
j.
"hit 'i' for interactive startup"
and if/when you did, did you hit i multiple times like a madman? (that's what i mean by "like a mug" :) that's what you'll want to do.
rename ohci194.o (lib/modules/2.4.20-18.9-or whatever-/kernel/drivers/ieee1394) and then make kudzu on (chkconfig --level 5(or 3 or whatever) kudzu on). this makes kudzu and hence cd-rom/floppy... work and postpones the shutdown problem until just after the 'Power down' line. I guess -as I read a few things about it- this new problem can be overcome by apmd support in kernel. any idea how to do that?
Menal.
i would assume that apmd support in the kernel can be achieved by compiling it in...? i haven't fired up my linux in a while (since i've been engaged on a non-linux project), so this weekend if i got time i may take a look at that and try to compile a "worry free" kernel. :)
j.
glad to find this little forum. much kudos to you jon. thanks.
i just bought this hp laptop a couple of days ago and ran into all of the above. i have been fortunate enough to have gotten past the installation up to the boot up where it hangs like a mug! problem is, i just cannot get into interactive mode.
i read all of the posts and dug around the net but cannot seem to get it there. i boot up into linux...and it goes through to the point where it says "Welcome to Red Hat Linux - press 'I' to..." and i hit "I" like craaaazzzy!!! nothing. i've tried hanging on the 'i', i tried repeatedly hitting it, i tried timing it...it just won't go into interactive mode.
i'm using Red Hat 8.0...does anyone have any ideas???
j.
First, let me apologize for the extremely long post.
But I wanted to be thorough so that others who
run into this problem don't have to spend the 3 or
4 days I spent hunting for solutions on the web.
Having said that...the following is an explanation
of my experience trying to install and run Red Hat
9 on my HP ze5385 laptop.
- Problem 1:
Tried to repartition drive using Partition Magic
but it hung
Solution:
Used Partition Magic boot disk to lauch the app
and it worked fine
- Problem 2:
Installing Red Hat 8 and 9 freezes/hangs with the
message "Loading ohci1394 drivers" or something
like that. Also, after getting past that I ran
into other problems all solved with the following
solution.
Solution:
When the Red Hat installation screen comes up...type
"linux nofirewire nopcmcia noprobe" and hit enter.
This got me through the installation without a problem.
I saw posts elsewhere that tossing nousb in the
list of parameters would work but I found this to be
unnecessary.
- Problem 3:
Could not boot into linux because it would freeze/hang
on the message "Initializing firewire controller (ohci1394)"
or something like that. There were a number of possible
solutions:
Solution 1:
Do like Jon said and hit "I" to get into interactive mode
and opting not to load the ohci1394 drivers when
asked. For some reason...this just wouldn't work for
me at all because no matter how many times I hit
"I" and no matter if I hung on the key or hit the
key repeatedly, it would not go into interactive mode.
Still...if this works for you great!!! Edit the
files as mentioned below and you're good to go.
Solution 2:
I had no other way to get in so I had to do something
else. Someone posted in another forum somewhere that
they use Knoppix. So, I downloaded an ISO image of
Knoppix and ran that. You can find it at
http://www.linuxISO.org
Make sure you read the instructions on burning the CD
if you've never burned an ISO image before.
For those who don't know...Knoppix is a Linux distro
that is pre-installed on a CD. If you pop this CD
into the tray, it will boot from the CD-ROM drive and
launch Knoppix. Knoppix is truly remarkable. It
automatically detected and mounted the linux partitions
that I installed on the hard drive but could not boot
into and it had no problems recognizing my hardware.
From a Knoppix terminal window I had to mount the
partitions with write permissions. to do that I did
the following:
- Typed "su -" in the terminal window to get to super
user mode. *Note: it does not prompt you for a root
password because it's pre-installed and you wouldn't
know the password anyway if there was one.
- My linux partitions were on hda2 and hda3. So I did
the following:
"mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 -w"
and
"mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 -w"
to mount the partitions with write permissions.
At this point I was able to edit the grub.conf file
with the following:
Change:
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi
To:
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi nofirewire
This ensured that I would be able to get past the
freeze upon boot-up with the message "Initializing
firewire controller..." (as Jon instructed above)
Next, I had to make sure I could get past the "Detecting
new hardware" freeze at boot up. The problem here is
that since I'm running in Knoppix from the CD-ROM and
peaking into my Red Hat partition on my hard drive,
the "chkconfig kudzu off" solution doesn't work. So,
to get around that I had to change all the symbolic
links in the /etc/rc.d/rcX.d (where X is a runlevel number)
directories that pointed to the kudzu startup script in
init.d - Here's what I did...
- cd /etc/rc.d/rcX.d
- ls
look at the output searching for kudzu. it will always
be either SXXkudzu or KXXkudzu where XX are two numbers.
(e.g. S05kudzu; K95kudzu)
rename these symbolic links to _SXXkudzu or _KXXkudzu
with this command
- mv SXXkudzu _SXXkudzu
** don't forget to make sure you DO NOT type 'XX'.
substitute the numbers for XX.
I did this to all the rcX.d directories even though
I probably only needed to do it to the ones in run level
3 and 5. Also, it should only be necessary to do it
to the ones beginning with 'S' because 'S' means "start"
and 'K' means "kill". But, to make sure and because I
didn't want to waste any more time...I just renamed all
the freakin' links! (i know...irrational but who cares)
FINALLY I was able to boot into my Red Hat installation
and run into the shut down freeze when I shut down.
arrgh.
If you're following this..you can fix it ahead of time
while you're within the Knoppix session. Choice is yours.
- Last Problem:
Shutting down freezes at "Stopping pcmcia..." as Menal
mentioned above.
Solution:
As Menal mentioned above...rename the file ohci1394.o to
something else (I renamed it to _ohci1394.o) in the
"lib/modules/2.4.20-XXXX/kernel/drivers/ieee1394
directory. This cleared it up for me entirely.
I did not run into problems with the mouse pad working so
I don't know what can be done about that. At any rate, I hope this post helps anyone who is in need of getting past all this crap.
I would like to give much thanks to Jon for hosting this forum, to
Menal for his posts and to all who contributed herein.
I would not have been able to get through this without
you. Thanks!
ricky
after doing what Menal said (renaming ohci1394.o) it was unnecessary to do "chkconfig kudzu off" now what i was running in Red Hat.
regards!
ricky
thanks again for the input!
j.
Its really a good forum to join. I bought this hp pavilion ze5300 a week ago and got the same problem installing RedHat 8.0 as mentioned above forums and finally got solved. I will briefly explain the problems and solutions I applied slightly different with some explained solutions.
1. OK, got 60GB of hard disk and wants to install dual operating system (Windows XP and Linux).. its for sure for proper operation boot loader for Linux wants to be before 1024 cylinders (Installing GRUB) and also Windows XP wants to be on primary partition C. I use fdisk (old favurate buddy) for partition. we can make bootable floopy with fdisk easily ..(hope i dont need to explain), then make primary partition C (for 7.5 GB) then D (for 100MB), then E (for how much space you want for windows) and rest for F (for Linux). Not D,E and F is under extended partition.
Install Windows first in C and install Linux /boot on D and /, /bin etc.. on F. for all other windows application use E.
OK.. Installation works fine and its for sure we wont get any problems booting ever.
2. I used "linux nofirewire pcmcia=off" while installing linux to get rid of all those problems for sure to get while installing Linux.
3. installation goes smooth and after reboot i didnt get the problem (for the first time) to access command interface. Problems for Kudzu can be solved already suggested by Menal or Jon. For firewire problem I edit /etc/rc.sysinit and diable the line explaining firewire. just search :/firewire (in vi editor) and put hash infornt of all the lines explaining firewire.. and save it :/qw!
it was just working fine after then. I didnt get any problems for pcmcia or for mouse pad.
Hope it helps.
http://freax.be/wiki/index.php/Installing%20RH9...
-Upon interactive startup, it "fails" while bringing up interface eth0
-also, a few lines later, it says I have a "bad EIP value"
-and finally, I can't get my wireless or ethernet card to work.
Help please
Charles a "Linux newbie"
First of all, I found no report at Red Hat Bugzilla on this problem, so I entered one - bug no is 103622. I would recommend posting official reports on problems like this; it actually helps. (While Red Hat engineers do not seem to take much heed of mailing lists or fora like this.)
Secondly, the APM disable option would be "apm=off", I think, but adding it makes no difference for me.
Other postings have said to disable apm and compile in acpi to solve some battery issues. (Consensus seems to be acpi needs to be compiled in to RH but is modular on other linuxes)
My installation still has many issues and is somewhat piecemeal and I am working on them slowly but surely. I'll probably have my next laptop by the time I have them all resolved.
I've had the same problem about the 'initializing firewire controller' hang on my dell inspiron 300m. Just wanted to let you know I found a fix that works for me, in case it might help you. My machine installed ok, but I got the exact symptoms described here when I installed a 2.4.22 kernel. However, I added the line
pre-install ohci1394 /bin/sleep 2
to /etc/modules.conf, which causes the machine to sleep a couple seconds before loading the ohci1394 module. My machine boots clean every time now. I don't know why this would help, but at this point I'm just happy it works.
Hope this helps you guys some.
thanks!
j.
a lot of people have already said this, but i don't think there's any harm in repeating that this really is a great forum. this is my first time using linux, and have installed RH9 on my ze5385. I followed all of ricky's instructions on getting linux to work by disabling firewire, and downloaded knoppix as well but unfortunately when i typed
mount /dev/hda7 /mnt/hda7 -w
in the console, i got the following message
mount: /dev/hda7 already mounted or /mnt/hda7 busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/hda7 is already mounted on /mnt/hda7
i couldn't edit grub.conf because i didn't have permission to read! i even tried editing /etc/rc.sysinit like ashish said, but similarly i couldn't because i didn't have write privileges.
how do i get write privileges?
if you unmount the disk first then mount it again, it should work. simply run the following command...
umount /mnt/hda7
then run...
mount /dev/hda7 /mnt/hda7 -w
it should work.
ricky
HUGE thanks to you all!!! I got rid of the firewire freeze (renaming ohci1394.o + grub config during installation), and managed to get it running fullscreen using XFConfig posted by "me" (automatic config repeatedly failed). No shutdown freeze, though; running RedHat 9.0 on Presario 2575us.
albina
Now to learn Linux....
lj.
First a tip. Installing Mandrake 9.1 on HP ze5468cl got Firewire hang, used "linux nodetect" (brute and stupid) and it worked, X hung, then remembered I had seen that the video chipset is RADEON blah-xxxx. Selected Radeon and X is killer 25-bit and fast.
BUT, no NIC, modem, firewire, and Bluetooth is on all the time - hardware switch does nothing.
Ideas??? It's gonna make me sick to have to put XP back on it......
F
c_cc
with your help, i installed the RH9 n my ze5385 laptop.
i m still having some problems though with the touchpad..(it seemed to work while i was installing it) and Conexant modem. the link they hv on their site is to linuxant website, but i guess its a paid driver !!
i would also like to know if anyone has also managed to get the wireless to work ?
thanks a lot again
keep posting..
bye,
amit
http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/rawhide/1.0/i386/...
I used neat to configure wireless which with all up2date_s, and the latest wireless tools, seems to work.
Set up a wireless device first using the Lucent orinoco wireless driver. If the options given only show pcmcia devices you are not up2date. The module is orinoco_pci.o.
The card is a prism2 (2.5) and should work with the hostap driver, which could theoretically allow the laptop to act as a full scale wireless access point (AP infrasctructure mode) complete with 802.1x authentication and any other sort of AUTH/VPN/IPSEC jazz you wish to employ. This is left as an exercise for the reader who may begin reading at http://hostap.epitest.fi/
The prism2 chipset works with the orinoco, prism2,
hostap, and wlan_ng drivers all of which vary in ease of configuration, openness, and capabilities.
Good Luck
I want to get the console of a remote machine in the network when the system boots, so that I can login to that system. Where I wanted to save the scripts and what type of script I wanted to write.. Hope any one of u can clear my answer....
regards Vipin
First of all Thanks to all of you for maintaing this nice forum. Let me come to my problem.
i just got ze5500HP laptop and was trying to install RH9 on it. I have already installed windowsXP and that is working fine. I started installing linux and got the same problem of loading ohci1394.o I figured that out as per ricky's response and then I installed linux easily. on rebooting i got stuck in intiallizing firewire stuff. For that i burn a CD of knoppix as per ricky again and got through it. After booting through knoppix, i changed the grub.conf file with nofirewire modification. No I need to rename the ohci194.o file somehow. i logined as root by the way. i shows me that the file is read only with permissions like -rw-r--r-- I do now how to change the permissions. I tried using chmod ugo+rwx ohci1394.o but it didn'w work. i o not have anyclue about this. if anybody has any idea of this please et e know. the other problem i am having was o kudzu related. i looked into etc/ directries as per ricky again but couldn't find anything he said like etc/rc.d/rcX.d , but instead I had etc/rcX.d in my comp. WhenI looked in this directory (X=3), i had a file as KX10session. Nothing related to kudzu.
What should i do now. Any help will be really appreciated. Anyway thanks guys for keeping this forum alive by the virtue if which i have atleast installed linux.
Vikas
I have tried get the display working but it does not help.
I tried X -configure and i get this error:
Server is already active for display 0
If this server is no longer running remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again
If someone can help me out it would great. I am a linux newbie and would appreciate any help.
Best Regards,
Vijay
If anyone has any updated and extremely clear direction for making this baby fly I would appreciate it.
your X server may be running -- as root, do a "killall -9 xdm" to kill your X server
Sean, read above on a possible solution to your wireless issue.
j.
I'm just another ** happy ** new owner of an HP Pavillion ze 5400 who struggles for installing RH 9.0.
I managed to install RH 9.0 having followed this link : http://freax.be/wiki/index.php/Installing%20RH9...
RH 9.0 is installed, and kudzu as well as pcmcia are off.
I need know to put some packages on the disk drive to keep on going and recompile kernel before restarting kudzu and pcmcia services (see the instructions provided by the link above).
I burned a CD with the desired software with another computer (ACPI stuff).
I do not have a floppy drive on the HP Pavillion labptop. The probem is that my CD ROM drive on the labtop is not yest configured since kudzu is off. Question: how do I configure my cd rom drive without kudzu ??
Fred
First, props to Jon for maintaining this interesting forum - I didn't even know there are this many (semi-)happy ze5xxx Linux users out there!
I am happy owner of ze5385 and I tried installing RH8 and 9 on this laptop. As everybody else, I ran into firewire/apm/X problems, got tired of tinkering and decided to try Debian and SuSE 8.2 instead (recently upped to 9).
There is a nice writeup on Debian installation at:
http://mung.net/~dude/install/brick_install/ind...
It needs a bit of spelling/grammar cleaning, but it is clear enough to get things rolling.
As for SuSE, I tried it on the Debian-on-ze5385us author's recommendation and it does work really good.
8.2 was cool with the dreaded firewire module, but didn't know how to configure APM and modem during the inital installation. This was easily fixable via YAST and kernel recompile later.
Couple of days ago I wiped the hard drive to repartition it (and reinstall WinXP in the smaller partition) and decided to put the newly arrived SuSE 9.0 as the Linux of choice.
9.0 installer correctly found and installed absolutely everything - ieee1394, APM, modem, correct video chipset (still no 3Daccel though), sound, both wired and wireless NICs - everything.
The only thing missing now is the hibernate option I grew to like in WinXP, but I hear that's in the works too.
Bottom line - if you want Linux working on ze5xxx with the least amount of effort, give SuSE a try.
R3
Just to let any of you Ze53xx owners out there know that your P4 is socketed, and can be upped to a 3.06Ghz P4 Northwood Cpu.. It is also a good idea to clean your notebooks internals periodically. To see good pics and a how to guide on taking apart your notebook, including pics of your socket 478, and how to clean the massive heatsink that cools your notebook, check out this guide...
www.nexgentechnologies.net/cpruitt
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=Label=/ rhgb acpi=on
I have bought HP ze4560us laptop. While loading Red hat Linux 9.0, it hanged in the post-installation phase, when the prompt comes to ask about creating Boot Diskette. There is no floppy drive in my laptop, but the mouse stops working.
Still, I go ahead and then install XFree86 by using XFree86 -configure. It shows a screen after testing the server. But, just a X pointer on the screen and nothing else.
What should I do in this case?
How can I bring the graphic interface?
http://jon.madisons.com/2003/06/16/xf86config_for_hp_pavillion_ze5300.jon
[root@localhost root]# /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device cbb2 (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc PCI Bridge [IGP 340M]
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 02)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV]
00:08.0 Modem: ALi Corporation Intel 537 [M5457 AC-Link Modem]
00:09.0 Network controller: Harris Semiconductor Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01)
00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6912 Cardbus Controller
00:0b.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 50)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 50)
00:0b.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 51)
00:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
00:10.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4)
00:11.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 PMU
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon IGP 340M
You need to modify /etc/modules.conf by adding two lines before the IEEE controller:
pre-install usb-uhci modprobe yenta_socket
pre-install ehci-hcd modprobe yenta_socket
alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394
Now -- has anyone got the modem working?
http://www.swendrak.de/linux/ze5300_howto.pdf
Steve - I'm also the Linux newbie and from all information shared by all these nice persons I'm now using Fedora Core 1 on wire Ethernet to send this message now.
Could you please share how to make the wireless work?
(^_^)
Songkrant
My apology to Steve from my former post, did you make it work?
So far, I think Fedora is really cool, nice, nearly completed package with very few modification needed to complete the "successful" installation.
I hope sooner I will use Fedora Linux more than Windows XP. Thanks Jon to make this space.(^_^)
Have the nice weekdays to you all,
(^_^)
Songkrant
I bought a HP pavillion ze5414EA in Oct,2003.
I'd like to get some technical info in it in English as well as any third party reports on iyts performance.
Can you help?
Thanks,
Bob
Great work. Every problem I have encountered with redhat on my 5385 has been addressed.
I've noticed a few people always wipe the hard drive to repartiton. You don't need to. I found a great tool to resize NTFS disks. WWW.booitng.com
Download BootIt Next Generation, follow the instructions to put it on a floppy. Boot with the floppy.
Don't install the software, just hit cancel, then hit partition work and resize your NTFS partition to make some free space for linux.
I also used it to create a fat32 partion so I can boot using a freedos boot disk for some DOS real time motion control software and my ozzifox osciliscope software.
As far as my install goes I'm done playing games with redhat. I'm taking R3's advice and just ordered suse 9.0.
Again, great work everyone
Mark
Initial install prompt:
linux noprobe nofirewire
Video:
generic laptop display panel 1024x768
Install proceeded normally, no hitches. When install was complete and it started to reboot I turned it off and inserted my knoppix cd. Booted into knoppix and edited two things ...
(1) /etc/rc.sysinit line 641 (in rh8 at least) where it loads the firewire drivers I simple commented the section out. This eliminates the need for 'nofirewire' in the boot line.
(2) renamed /lib/modules//kernel/drivers/iee1394 to _iee1394 thus removing it from the kernel probing during the kudzo hardware scan and eliminating the need to either enter interactive mode at boot, or disable kudzo.
MC
j.
I am trying to install RH9 on ze5570 (XP/RH9 dual) and, naturally, I ran into the problems discribed. This is my first encounter with UNIX, so I doubt I can even call myself a newbie, as I don't know anything about it. I was able to edit the grab.conf file (after only 6 hours on the net finding out what a vi is:), but I cannot rename the ochi1394.o using knoppix. Similarly to what Vicky's got stuck with, it refuses to rename (or chmod or do anything with the file) saying "Read-only file system". I disabled "read only" on unmounted devices (except the hda1, which is used by XP), I remounted -w again, I've been searching the net for 3 days...
Any hints? Thanks a million.
j.
su
No password is necessary. Then modify to your heart's content.
>Erayl, could you please share your trick(s)
>to make the wireless LAN working on Fedora?
There are no tricks. With FC1, use the menus to get to System Settings | Network. You should see your wireless card on the hardware tab. Configure it from here and then activate it on the Devices tab.
I use kwifimanager with the card after configuration.
hung on the partition check (which seems to
be impossible to avoid) on the Mandrake 9.0
boot disk, but not 9.2. You could avoid the
hang with the kernel parameter ide=nodma,
just pointing it out here in case the same
hang occurs for some other Pavillion / distro,
obviously not an issue for Mandrake anymore.
Thanks for all the advice collected here.
I have recently installed Mandrake 9.2 on my HP laptop ze5385 by partitioning. My Linux
installation is working fine with internet and all but I see that the audio device is not working. Actually while installation it got stuck while not detecting the firewire (I1394 port) and hence I bypassed that and audio drivers were not installed too. When I click on the audio device icon, it says "couldn't open mixe device /dev/sound/mixer" ... I have looked into the directory system using nautilus to see that there is no directory called "sound" within /dev
I am wondering if the audio drivers could be installed separately and get the audio to work on this machine.
Any help in this regard is highly appreciated.
thanks
Nilanjan
I'm with R3 ... why not just save yourself a lot of hassle and ditch the crap!!
I bought RH9 and Mandrake 8.2 ..... RH refused to instal but Mandrake did ... flawlessly!! For a newbie, what can i say but..... WOW!!
I'm looking forward to Mandrake 9.2. which i shoud instal very soon.
cheers
I have installed RHL 9 on my laptop HP ze5501us. It hanged on firewire, which i rectified by doing nofirewire, now boot stops checking for new hardware. Even if i cross this part, by using apm-off acpi-off nofirewire command during boot time. Still i could not get my usb mouse or the touchpad to work.
Can you suggest me how to get the usb mouse and the touchpad work for me? Also if you can please give the necessary commands to eliminate firewire checking. I know its repetitious, but still i am facing this problem for more than 2 weeks, till i got fed up with it, and now i see your site, guys i need help
Thanks
Display, floppy, USB, wireless (Prism chipset), Ethernet, CD-RW, touchpad with scroll area, audio are all tested and working fine. Front of machine button/LED for wireless doesn't seem to do anything; neither does "Disable radio" in KWiFiManager. Right-hand side buttons for audio volume and muting don't do anything. Haven't tried firewire, IR, internal modem, external monitor or keyboard/mouse, parallel port, SVHS output, PCMCIA slot.
Display, floppy, USB, wireless (Prism chipset), Ethernet, CD-RW, touchpad with scroll area, audio are all tested and working fine. Front of machine button/LED for wireless doesn't seem to do anything; neither does "Disable radio" in KWiFiManager. Right-hand side buttons for audio volume and muting don't do anything. Haven't tried firewire, IR, internal modem, external monitor or keyboard/mouse, parallel port, SVHS output, PCMCIA slot.
This week I wanted to install RH9 on my ZE5500 and got de 'loading ohci1394 driver-hang-screen' too.
As I am pretty new in Linux-stuff I tought my laptop just wasn't compatible and I almost gave up.
Until I came here!!
Let me just say that this forum is realy great and it helped me a lot with installing my RH9.
With the help of Jon and Ricky I got past the hang screen, and installed de cd's, after rebooting it hangs again so I tried the knoppix-thing like ricky said but I can't get the:
"Change:
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi
To:
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi nofirewire"
-thing done, I have only Write permissions as root, and only in text-mode and I have no clue how to change that line in grub.conf file.
Can anyone explain that too me 'like I'm 5 year old'?
Question, is there a simple fix without sending it in?
Thanks,
Ross
I have a ze5500 with windows xp home edition preinstalled on it. I tried to use partition magic to resize my partition and install linux RedHat 9. it didn't work. I got too many errors after rebooting. So, I wipped out everything and did the partition manually. Installed windows xp from scratch. but the screen display was of the size of postcard.
any suggestion?
I have a ze5560us. Before I found this site I tried installing Fedora. I made room on the drive with Partition Magic 8. The last message I saw was "locating disks". I couldnt get the details, I guess I didnt hit the 'i' key "like a mug". I thought the problem was with the disks. Back in PQ I moved the /boot partition to within the first 1024 cylinders. This shouldnt have been a problem but that is what I did. After many hours of frustration getting Fedora to load I couldnt get my windows to boot anymore either because the /boot partition and grub weren't lined up, or something... any way. I had to use grub commands to boot back into windows:
rootnoverify(hd0,0)
chainloader +1
boot
This got me back into windows to format all the linux partitions. I started over with a redhat9 disk and immediately got the message about the ohci1394 driver which led me to this site!!
After trying out knoppix to fix my fedora, I got by a few problems, the ohci1394, noprobe, nopcmcia, and hit other snags with the floppy.o, I don't have a floppy drive and tried alias nofloppy but that didnt work either. Because of others comments on this site, I gave up on fedora and tried SuSE 9.0. I made a large FAT32 partition to share files between XP and linux. Everything installed fine! I tried the eval disk first and it booted without a hitch, so i did the full FTP install. I tap the off/on button and it gracefully shuts down. I have battery/charging indicators (KDE). I have wireless via the embedded Broadcom 802.11g using www.linuxant.com drivers($20, but will pay when eval is up). Scrolling mouse touch pad as well. A hearty thanks to jon for maintaining this site and also to all the contributors, thanks!!
As for the VMware, I have installed the vmware software but havent put an OS up yet. My laptop came with an HP XP cd which appeared to be the basic XP home OS. It also came with 4 or 5 recovery CD's that resets the partition table and reinstalls the OS with the hardware specific drivers.
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net
Tried also to recompile the Kernel, but all went wrong. Couldn't find the 2.4.20-20.9 version at RH website, as suggested by Swendrak (ze5300_howto.pdf), so I took the 2.4.20-30.9 and there is no ACPI patch for this version. Tried the latest one anyway, but they don't like each other.
So, if I understand well, summing up all that was said before, is the solution to give up RH and to get SuSE 9.0?
http://jon.madisons.com/2003/06/17/hp_pavilion_...
maybe it's there.
at any rate, if you're going the red hat route, i suggest you begin to use Fedora anyway, as Red Hat is no longer supported on the end user front.
http://fedora.redhat.com/
j.
but i am stuck when trying to gain acces to the grub.conf file. ive tried the mount and umount and everything i could find on this site about where i am, but it still says i dont have permission to read the file. What can i do so i will have acess to change the grub.conf file? i have a ze5470. please help
Hi,
First of all thanks to this great post. I almost gave up on mu ohci hang when I found this site. There is a way to get to hard disk and make changes to filenames and rc.sysinit. Press Ctrl-Alt F2. That will take to a shell. Now "cd /mnt/sysimage". This is "root directory" where Redhat is busy installing all the packages. Just rename the drive file and make changes.
Great posts and thanks again.
Rohit
i'm looking for vga driver for IBM THINKPAD driver for ATI RADEON IGP 300m,i could download from ibm site is there other place i can download.
cheer's
kendi
Install WinXP first.
Install redhat9.0 with the option
'linux nofirewire'
I select GRUB as the bootloader.
For the first boot of RedHat9.0,
when the screen comes to GRUB,
use grub editor ('e') to change the boot line
'kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi'
to
'kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi nofirewire'
hit 'b' to boot.
Hit 'I' to select interactive startup
(Note: The first time I did not modify the boot line and the key 'I' did not work. However I press 'I', it did not come to the interactive startup. After I used grub editor, 'I' worked fine)
If you would like to stop kudzu at the booting time, it's fine to do this. Or you can disable it after the first bootup. I used the latter.
After the first bootup, Diable pcmic and kudzu, otherwise, it will hang at "checking the new hardware". (I did not diable kudzu the first time, the bootup hang at 'Checking new hardware').
I was able to repartition successfully using Partition Magic 8 after I uninstalled HP Sonic and Symantect Live Update. I used the PerfectDisk disk defragmenting utility (free 30 day trial) to show me which files were "live", because defragmenters can't move open files. These "live" files (other than things like pagefile.sys) are typically owned by live update programs. So one can defrag and then look at the excluded file list to find out the "live" files and tnen uninstall or deactivate the applications that own them.
Kind of ironic that Symantec owns PartitionMagic now and its own live update software is breaking it. Took a few hours to work out, too. Sigh....
Even if i chose to ignore and carry on without software installation it failed.I have carried out this installation on another pavilion model with success.I tried Suse 8.0 but his equally failed.What can i do to have it running?.
(great forum)
j.
I ran into the firewire and Kudzu problems.
I was not able to go into interactive no matter how many times I hit I too. I found a solution to this. In my grub loader I added single to the end. This booted me into single user mood and could apply the above patches to the system.
I am having an additional problem of not being able to mount a cd or floppy. I added this line to fstab and it was no help.
/dev/hdc1 /dev/cdrom iso9660 defaults 0 0
Error: wrong FS type, bad option, bad superblock or too many mounted file systems
Any suggestions??
i need to find again, then will do.
particularly tough since i don't run this anymore.
i think i had a lot of luck with fedora (this was FC1) on this laptop, as far as the X11 config. it Just Worked.
j.
I have installed knoppix "a la mexicana" (something like: knoppix mexican way) and knoppix 3.7 (dowloaded from linuxiso.org) a few months ago and those distros didn´t have any problem to install, even i can say that they (knoppix) recognizes my wi-fi (LAN-express ieee 802.11 pci adapter).
I'm trying to install red hat (server mode) 'cause i have to install oracle 9i (or informix or db2) to a school project, i have to "join" or work with at least two machines running oracle, one in linux and other in windows. But that's another problem.
So, i have readed that oracle is supported in red hat, then, i'm in this trouble installing.
I can install Red Hat 9 in my hp laptop ze5447la (also i have windows xp pro), but i have the same problem in the first booting (only i can boot with a 3 1/2" disket).
I've tried: linux nofirewire, linux nofirewire noprobe, nousb, nopcmia... and combinations between them, and the only "fix" i have seen is with nofirewire (ohci1394 driver), but it crash a few seconds later, at "Checking new hardware" (Búsqueda de nuevo hardware in spanish).
I have also tried the 'i' key (like crazy) in interactive start up and it seems dont´t work. I understand that I have to run the "chkconfig kudzu off" or "chkconfig -level 3 kudzu off" for fixing this problem, but i'm wondering: how i'm going to run that command if i can't load the os fully?
Could any one else help me. I'm not expert, i'm maybe a newbie , but i want to learn linux.
P.S. Excuse my poor english, if anyone speaks spanish your help will be appreciated. Thanks from Veracruz, Mexico.
P.S.2: if i can install red hat later..., can i work with my ethernet? it recognizes it? (my eterhnet is a National Semicondutor dp83815)
Try, try, try... and magic! ;o)
For some reason, I start over again. I thought: if i have spent some hours of my life with this, why not try another? And gods hear me! and i'm apologizing after my last post.
my solution:
install prompt: linux nofirewire
I delete the ext3 partition and i create it again. So, i have to reinstall red hat (server type installation for my purposes) and grub again (this time i wrote 'nofirewire' on the textfield of extra-parameters, in anticipation to modify grub.conf), and boot disket and reboot...
I pressed 'i' key after the screen shows something about swap... (initxxx begins just after that) and i hold on until the message of "press 'I' key for interactive..." appears. When it start to ask me if i want to load kudzu i wrote 'n' for that one, and 's' (default) in all next questions.
For dual boot:
I login as root and i execute:
mkdir /mnt/floppy
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/mnt/floppy/linux.bin bs=512 count=1
# hda1: where win xp pro is installed, hda2: where red hat is.
# that is for dual boot, more info on
# http://www.piensa.com/piensa/foro_principiantes...
# linux.bin has to be copied to c:\ and the boot.ini file in windows has to be updated with one line at
# the end: c:\linux.bin = "Red hat 9", but this is extra info
for fix the autocheck new hardware at loading:
chkconfig --level 3 kudzu off
chkconfig --level 5 kudzu off
and for fix the shutdown process (the first time shutdown crashed at disabling/stoping pcmcia...):
u have to rename file 'ohci1394.o' to '_ohci1394.o' as ricky said (August 24th, 2003 at 8:02 pm in this page)
well, it works, the graphics are 800x600 but it is enough at the moment. Maybe some day i'll tell you about oracle in red hat... that's my next objective.
Thanks to all.