Friday, January 06, 2006

Debian 3.1 Dell d800 Wireless

For the Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200BG Driver for Linux (e.g. - ipw2200). Add to your /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib

Remember to run the update:
# apt-get update

Add a couple of packages. I upgraded my kernel to 2.6.8-2 through the Debian package.

# apt-get install kernel-headers-2.6.8-2-686
# apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-686
# apt-get install dhcp3-client

Set it to watch all interfaces using the keyword "auto". Set it to watch hotplug devices "all". Also in /etc/network/interfaces make sure only lo is brought up.
# apt-get install ifplugd

# apt-get install wireless-tools
# apt-get install ipw2200-source

Put your firmware in /usr/local/lib/firmware. Grab the firmware from here:
http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php

Extract the ipw2200 driver in /usr/src

# tar -zxvf ipw2200-source.tar.gz
# cd modules/ipw2200/driver
# make KSRC=/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8-2-686 install
# depmod -a
# modprobe ipw2200

Thursday, January 05, 2006

Debian 3.1 on Dell d800

I just got Debian 3.1 Sarge on my Dell d800. The problem was my wide screen display it just wouldn't take. I had to install the Nvidia drivers and edit the XF86Config-4 file.

XF86Config-4 (WSXGA laptop screen):

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
HorizSync 28.0 - 107.0
VertRefresh 30.0 - 130.0
ModeLine "1680x1050" 147.1 1680 1784 1968 2256 1050 1051 1054 1087 +hsync +vsync
ModeLine "1600x1024" 198.8 1600 1712 1888 2176 1024 1027 1030 1075 +hsync +vsync
ModeLine "1440x900" 130.0 1440 1452 1572 1896 900 901 904 937 +hsync +vsync
ModeLine "960x600" 60.0 960 968 1048 1264 600 601 603 625 +hsync +vsync
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
... And of course ...

Modes "1680x1050" "1600x1024" "1440x900" "800x600" "640x480"

My d8000 is equipted with the GeForce FX Go5650. You can get the you can grab the Nvidia driver, NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8178-pkg1.run, from the Nvidia site. It's the Linux IA32 driver.