Printable View
I've got a Dell Inspiron 2650, Pentium 4-M 1.7GHz, 512 MB, 20GB HD, 32MB NVidia GeForce2Go and I originally had a problem loading Knoppix. It would stall out and not load after the initial install list. I used the cheat code "noscsi" and damn if it didn't work. I've had no problem since then have have been able to setup a home directory on an external USB hard drive.
KNOPPIX ROCKS!
I'm using an ibm t30 with a netgear ma401 pcmcia wlan card and a jetflash 128MB usb memory stick. No problems whatsoever. The wlan card was automatically configured and got a DHCP address from my FreeBSD AP.
I have an encrypted hard disk, so there is no possibility for swapping there. I also have 768MB RAM, so that's not really a problem. Booting knoppix toram worked, but I was unable to start X. Now, I'm just running from the CD.
pod
Works and (HD) installs on an Acer TM803LMi, 1.6GHz centrino, 512MB ram, ati radeon 9000 with 64MB of ram, dvd-r writer, 15" 1400x1050 resolution, broadcom NIC.
Clearly wifi doesn't works out of the box.
Still have to try the nDisWrapper project,
Gotta Micron Transport XPe p166, 32 Mb RAM 2 Gb Hdd to run Feather Linux. Needed to noscsi to get it to go. Used zero at the video foolishness that comes before running the kernel. Other options in Feather were VESA, 800x600, 16 bit depth. Haven't gotten sound to work yet.
Tried full knoppix but it hosed up my video and ran too slow. Feather is adequate for my needs
Works great on both of my Vaio's.
FX300
PIII 1 Ghz, 512 Mb ram, 20 gig hd, i81(0/5) graphics (8 megs), usb thumb drive, firewire (used Kino for DV editing), AC97 sound driver, & HCF/HSF linuxant modem driver.
F350
PII 366Mhz, 128 Mb ram, no hd, Neomagic 4 meg video, can't remember the audio but it is better than the FX300, HCF/HSF linuxant modem driver, firewire (haven't used for any DV due to slow chip speed), usb thumb drive.
With the 2.6.2 kernel APM/APCI works great. I also have the SonyPI keys going so when I unplug I can slow down both CPU's with cpufreq, and also I can dim the screens. With the FX300 I can go about 4 hours unplugged doing only word processing (3000mAh batt). I will be getting a second batt for it. No battery in the F350 but I will be getting 1 or 2 for it as well.
~ryan
I have a Gateway M675XL and everything works great on it except the sound it uses the i810_audio with the ac97_codec and the only way I can get sound is if I plug speakers or headphones into the microphone jack.
Fujitsu c-series lifebook and the n-series, might I add it is a lot easier than debian .0121 to install.
Wow working on a Presario 1722EU
Not only is everything working my wireless g pcmcia card (SMC) is working with the last release 2-16.... How cool is this! :lol:
Dell Inspiron 8200
P4-M 2.0GHz
Intel 845MP
Crystal CS4205 audio controller
15" UXGA screen
GeForce4 440 Go video controller
512 MB RAM
Everything works great! I just use screen=1600x1200.
(please note, so far, the bios for this model does not support boot from usb or firewire. hopefully a future update will address this.)
Dell Latitude D600
Intel Centrino 1.6 GHz CPU
40 GB HDD
1 GB RAM
Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 802.11b card (still not working)
14.1" SXGA+ Display
8-24-24-24X SWDVD/CDRW Combo Drive
Internal 56k modem (Untested)
Everything I want works great EXCEPT the Intel Centrino-based 2100 wireless networking card.
Any suggestions on how to get that going, would be appreciated.
i have got Knoppix working in a compaq 5150 (p1 100Mhz 74Mb ram) and a Acer Aspire 1302, both work well (the compaq is slow in X but...). wish the Acer was mine :sigh:.
IBM Thinkpad 600. Sound needed some tweaking but works using the OSS cs4232 driver.
IBM Thinkpad 600E. Again sound didn't work out of the box. CS46XX driver, not tried yet though.
Acer Travelmate 212TX. Sound works without any tweeking
Keyboard/Video/Mouse works fine on all the above.
Acer Aspire 1705SMi
Boots. Video defaults to 1024x768 rather than the correct 1280x1024.
Synaptics Mousepad & keyboard worked fine.
Onboard Eth detected but would not initialise
Didn't get the onboard wlan or sound working (but didn't try too hard)
Itronix IX-260
Needed to use noagp at boot up and celluar and WiFi adaptors don't work along with battery not being detected but everything else seems to work.
Vobis Power 2000+ XI
aka
Mitac 8375
aka
Xterasys CX-8375
similar to
Acer Aspire 1310 Series
Acer Aspire 1312LC
fb1024x768 xmodule=vesa xvrefresh=60
everything but the modem is working since September 2003
with knoppix 3.2 and with 3.3 installed on harddisk
Acer Aspire 1353 with Maxtor 160GB external Harddisk everything worked fine.
Dlink blue tooth dongle didnt work.
IBM Thinkpad T21 2647-4AU
512 RAM
Intel Etherexpress Pro 10/100 ethernet card.
20 GB hd
DVD-ROM drive
PS/2 mouse (Usb port broke)
Linksys WPC11v.3 802.11b pcmcia wireless card
Knoppix installed to hard drive.
2.4.24 custom kernel with cpufreq, lowlatency, preempt, and secacl patches, no xfs.
Everything works and with the custom kernel I built, I get the best of 2.4. and 2.6 kernels. Suspend, cpufreq, and watching DVD movies all work great. Wireless works without having to remove the modules before suspending. Captive-ntfs works great for reading/writing to ntfs drives. Default window manager is Enlightenment DR16 with KDE support.
Haven't tested infrared or the modem, but both aren't high priority items at the moment.
i just installed knoppix in my AOPEN 1545...
all seem to be in order... but only time will tell :lol:
IBM thinkpad A20p worked perfectly: dual boot XP and Knoppix. Everything in knoppix works (video, sound, network, wireless connection). No complaints from me. Great job everyone who has played and continues to play a role in this project.
Knoppix3.3 is working via cd but when perfroming HD install screen comes up with to large settings, not sure how to solve this. Tried XF86Config-4 file but no luck, will perform new HD install
I got Knoppix 3.3 and many other remasters (Overclockix, Danix, STD, ect.) working on my Alienware Area 51-m.
P4 2.8 Ghz
ATI Radeon Mobility 9800
Realtek WLAN card (Atheros based, I had to do a ton of messing around to get it to work, ended up with the Linuxant Driver Loader because madwifi and NDISwrapper didn't work.)
20 GB Harddrive
1 GB or RAM
Knoppix installed to Harddrive
2.6.5 Kernel Recompile, i love the newer features.
DVD-RW Drive, (haven't tested yet, I don't really have a need for it right now.
It also auto-detects and installs drivers for my Remote Control that comes with the system that works through infrared.
knoppix 3.4 works nice on my Laptop which is HP Pavilion ze5375us. It uses VESA mode(1024X768) for X since my laptop has a Radeon IGP 340M graphics chipset.
Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller which worked right out of the box.(Mine is a DSL connection)
Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device works wonderfully well. Far better than the existing Windows XP home installation.
Soft keys for Num pad, LCD brightness works excellent in 3.4.
The onboard Wireless LAN(Harris Semiconductor Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset) works well to. Not sure about the onboard Modem which is a ALi Corporation Intel 537 [M5457 AC-Link Modem]
Overall a very excited Knoppix user. I have recommended that to a number of my friends.
Good luck.
I took a Knoppix 3.3 CD and a Kanotix Bug Hunter CD down to the local Circuit City on Friday. After deciding which laptop I was interested in (HP Pavilion zv5120us), I convinced the sales associate to let me reboot it with the Knoppix CD in it. Knoppix booted up flawlessly. :D The sales associate was quite impressed and started asking questions. He even jotted www.knoppix.net down on his hand!
Long story short, I repartitioned the HD to give WinXP 20G and Linux 20G, did a HD install from the Kanotix CD, and am currently running apt-get upgrade. The only issues I've had so far are:
1. Sound worked fine when running from the Kanotix CD, but didn't work after the HD install. After about 20 minutes of tweaking, I've got sound working.
2. X is running at 1024x768. I suspect I'll need to install drivers for the ATI Mobility™ Radeon™ 9000 IGP video card to get the preferred 1280x800 resolution out of it.
3. Need to be able to play DVD's in the DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo drive. I haven't investigated this one much.
I haven't tested the built-in wireless, but the onboard LAN card is working fine.
Later,
BR
Knoppix 3.3 with HD install on a Sony Vaio PCG-GRT100
Intel P4 2.8
NIVIDA gforce4 420 Go Sony onboard video card
512 megs RAM
SigmaTel Major-C onboard sound card
Linksys WPC54G Wireless Card
USB Floppy Drive
NIVIDA drivers installed for graphics card 1024x768 24 bit color
ndiswrapper 0.6 installed for WPC54G Linksys Wireless Card
Sound doesen't work... Still trying to figure that one out. Locks up
knoppix when sound is played.
Cheatcodes at startup: noapic nosound
So far so good.... Love it !!!!! 8)
***************************************
5/10/2004
HOORAY I have been able to get the latest Knoppix 3.4 running on my Compaq Presario 2170CA using the following:
linux26 acpi=off noscsi
I am left with two problems.
1 - I must use the power button to turn off the machine. ( further reading indicates adding noacpi to the startup line will fix this)
2 - My USR 5410 wirless network card is not supported. (not a laptop issue but just though I'd mention it.)
***************************************
I have run 3.2 and 3.3 on my Compaq Presario 2170CA.
It has an AMD Athlon 2200XP running at 1.8Ghz.
Everything works now however I did have problems as follows.
Compaq has chosen to encapsulate power management inside the Windows XP supplied with the machine. As a result, when initially running 3.2, my laptop got very hot. This was because the fan speed control was missing and on power-up the fan speed is set to slow or off.
Compaq was very evasive about the problem until I noticed the same thing happened if I put a blank floppy in and turned the unit on.
A subsequent email to compaq generated a request to update the bios.
The updated bios now causes the machine to start with the fan on medium/high speed which is good but now the 3.2 would not boot.
I then tried 3.3 which did boot almost perfectly. The exception was with the ethernet adapter. It was necessary to restart network support to get it to work whereas previously, it came up during boot.
The latest version 3.4CT of Knoppix has resolved this issue when the 2.4x kernel is booted.
The Knoppix26 option (or any 2.6kernel option) does not boot but then this isn't the official release any.
Knoppix worked so well from CD that I installed it on the hard drive on my Thinkpad T-22 along with my XP Home Edition. I also installed it to the hard drive on my PC. I boot it from floppy because it was already dual boot running XP and RedHat. I find myself booting from the floppy a lot of the time.
sony vaio fx601
knoppix 3.4
kernel 2.6.4
modem worked for kernel 2.5, but stopped working with the new kernel-module-handling (linuxant würg-modem) .
I stopped investigating on this because I changed to adsl, which was a very easy install!
Using sound and modem has been problematic with 2.5.0-kernel. Since I seldom use sound I didn't configure it with the new kernel.
APM and ACPI don't work as expected, but this might be an issue of lazy manual reading.
On Page 6, a vaio-user claims to use it successful - well I might ask him what he did.
Due to missing hardware I never tested the firewire-possibilities of this notebook.
Setting up my printer (canon bjc3000) has always been a problem with linux, since canon doesn't support linux. Together with turboprint it now works fine. (parallel-port and usb).
My main tasks are running eclipse ( -3.0.0-gtk-M8) which works fine, and java-1.5.beta (fine too).
dsl: arcor-dsl-speed-modem 100
logitech usb-optical-wheel-mouse
eth0: rtl-8139
Code:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP]
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1a)
00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1a)
00:07.4 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)
00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
00:07.6 Communication controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. Intel 537 [AC97 Modem] (rev 30)
00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420
00:0a.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420
00:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV26 IEEE-1394 Controller (Link)
00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64)
I have been able to get Knoppix 3.3 working on a Dell Inspiron 8000, but the wireless card (d-Link) does not work. Is there anywhere I can get a copy of Knoppix with Linuxant Driver Loader? (I don't know how to remaster a cd, linux newbie).Quote:
Originally Posted by false-hopes
thanks
Andrej
Benq Joybook 8100
- Runs Knoppix 3.3
- Runs Knoppix 3.4 (using the cheatcode knoppix acpi=off)
I still have yet to get my Centrino wireless running with either versions. If anyone is having any better luck, mail me at [email protected]. It would be apprecited.
Successful CD boot:
KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN.iso
Compaq Presario 2100 Series
1.4G AMD Athlon XP-M
256M Ram (shared with vga to 192M)
30G HD, built in floppy, usb, firewire, etc
With no command line the screen goes blank immeadiately after the initail boot screen.
To boot properly, use one of the following command lines:
knoppix acpi=off noscsi
knoppix26 acpi=off noscsi
acpi causes initial blank screen/no boot.
scsi probe must be disabled to avoid is seg faulting.
KNOPPIX ROCKS!
James
Working setup
IBM ThinkPad R40 2897 - Pentium M 1.4 GHz - RAM 256 MB - HD 20 GB - CD-RW / DVD - Mdm - LAN EN, Fast EN, 802.11b - 14.1" TFT
It has the builtin centrino 802.11b wireless. It worked perfectly. All I had to do to get it to work was type in
and then run the network card configurationCode:iwconfing eth0 essid "myessid"
Toshiba Satellite 5200 series (PS520C-31P0EP)
Mobile Intel Pentium 4 - 2G, 512MB RAM, 40G HD
KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-04-EN.iso
Boot up with Knopppix 3.4:
Linux 2.4 - no problem (just hit the return key)
Linux 2.6 - requires "linux26 noscsi"
With both Linux 2.4 & 2.6, the Hotkey "Fn" function is not working. One result is that on bootup, the display brightness is set at minimum and it cannot be adjusted any brighter. So the 15" UXGA display is quite dim.
The default display resolution on bootup is 1,600x1,200 (it's native resolution, I believe). However, it can be changed to 800x600 at the bootup command line with
screen=800x600
Doesn't boot on an IBM Thinkpad X31. It hangs on when mounting filesystem...
Any idea? Mandrake Move starts fine!!
Knoppix 3.4 5-10-2004 boots wonderfully on my Inspiron 5100.
Performed HDD install, both the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels run wonderfully on it :)
Laptop dual-botos Winblows XP Home and Knoppix
Thank you Knoppix!
Compaq/HP nx5000 (1.4ghz Centrino, all new stuff)
Knoppix 3.4 booted great - detected (via lspci) my Broacom 10/100/1000 BCM5705M but didn't load drivers for it... also detected the INtel IPW2100 WLAN adapter, but again, nothing loaded for it...
Have to try in 2.6 (that was 2.4)
Everything seems to work on my Toshiba A45-S1202. Atheros Wireless and sound works. I used "clusterKNOPPIX 3.4-2004-05-10"
I got 3.4 working on my Sony Vaio FX220 laptop with CPU Pentium 750 Mhz and 120MB RAM. It detected my school network easily and I could configure my external USB mouse and USB thumbdrive. I have not tested the modem yet though. Some of the websites say that my comp has a winmodem. I will resolve that when I have some free time.
Here are the summary of steps I took:
Used the knoppix-installler instead of knx-hdinstall script to do the install.
In the LILO dialog box I opted for Overwrite MBR (I was really scared that it will mess up my other OS.. but it did not)
Knoppix rocks!
:D Persario 3000 /w the Huge Screen! Built-in Wifi 54g
I have my wifi working with 3.4 Knoppix, But no boot up config yet to give to everyone.
I'm just learning the knoppix script. Someone will beat me to it. But I did note this was not common knowledge or found in recent post. USE the NDISwrapper! Make it easy on yourself.
If you use the ndiswrapper you may get invalid module type when you try to modprobe ndiswrapper.
There is one step that may not be real clear an have been overlooked.
So everyone needs to note:
1) You must compile with gcc-2.95 not gcc-3.3!
a) cd /usr/bin
b) rm -f gcc
c) ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-2.95 gcc
d) goto the ndiswrapper dir
e) config, compile and install
f) cd /usr/bin --again
g) rm -f gcc
e) ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-3.3
2) This is under 2.6, haven't tried it under 2.4 kernel
3) Check the version or link to the gcc in your /usr/bin
a) whereis gcc
4) I tried to make a script but i'm really new at this.
+++++++ WUT is a Linux House Now!
I have dual booted all my windows systems and have changed the focus to more linux development at WUT. Microsoft is screwed and I attain better control over system designs, down to the kernel.
+++++++
Thx to the Knoppix Development Team
from the CEO of We Understand Technology
http://www.weunderstandtechnology.com
/usr/src/ndiswrapper/2.6make
#!/bin/bash
# Change gcc compile tool from 3.3 to 2.95 to 3.3
# run the make install while 2.95
#
cd /usr/bin
rm -f gcc
ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-2.95 gcc
cd /usr/src/ndiswrapper
make clean
make install
cd /usr/bin
rm -f gcc
ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-3.3 gcc
cd /usr/src/ndiswrapper
#/*
# Update Info to Knoppix-autoconfig
# add these lines after the APM section
#
#*/ You'd better understand what your doing in this script!
#
# Let's Modprobe ndiswrapper for 54g wireless
echo " ${BLUE} Loading NDIS Wrapper as reqested.${NORMAL}"
modprobe ndiswrapper
iwconfig wlan0 essid ***Your SSID Here***
echo " ${GREEN} Setting ESSID as reqested.${NORMAL}"
iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed
echo " ${GREEN} Setting mode to Managed as reqested.${NORMAL}"
#
# You can also get to info from a file, Not shown here
#
# Add these lines after
# First: PCMCIA Check/Setup
# This needs to be done before other modules are being loaded by hwsetup
#
# Fat-Client-Version: DHCP Broadcast for Wireless IP address
if checkbootparam "nodhcp"; then
echo " ${BLUE}Skipping DHCP broadcast/network detection as requested on boot commandline.${NORMAL}"
else
#NETDEVICES="$(awk -F: '/eth.:|tr.:/{print $1}' /proc/net/dev 2>/dev/null)"
NETDEVICES="$(awk -F: '/wlan.:|tr.:/{print $1}' /proc/net/dev 2>/dev/null)"
for DEVICE in $NETDEVICES
do
echo -n " ${GREEN}Wireless Network device ${MAGENTA}$DEVICE${GREEN} detected, DHCP broadcasting for IP.${NORMAL}"
trap 2 3 11
pump -i $DEVICE >/dev/null 2>&1 &
trap "" 2 3 11
sleep 1
echo " ${BLUE}(Backgrounding)${NORMAL}"
done
fi
### Now your 54g or 11b card is ready to roll.
Vaio PCG-N505SN
All hardware without exception works perfectly under Knoppix:
Bootable external PCMCIA CD-ROM
Firewire
Infrared IRDA
Sound
Screen Brightness Control
Video with xv accelleration
Wireless LAN with Orinoco Gold card
PCMCIA modem
Standby to RAM
The only thing is that I couldn't get it to hibernate to disk yet.
Averatec 3150P:
Has problems with the Synaptic Touchpad in kernel 2.4
Everything works flawlessly in 2.6
Also, my DLINK DWL 650 wireless works too... so the one that comes with the 3150H should work fine because it is a prism2 as well
I have Knoppix running on a Toshiba 2410, sd card not working, linmodem not working, Nvidia Graphics just fine, sound just fine, I used a pcmcia modem, do not care about the sd card.
Still haven't figured out how to get the xscreen savers to work in kde, but as soon as I found how to access my files on the ntfs system, I backed them up and booted windows right out the door.
Linux is happier without pushy windows.
And I am happier without any more crashes into windows.