Describe your Laptop here
1. The Laptop
Manufacturer: HP
Model: Pavilion zv6015us
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+
RAM: 1GB
Hard drive capacity: 100GB
2. Hardware
CD/DVD read: works
CD/DVD write: works
LAN: works
Wireless: works after additional effort (ndiswrapper instead of bcm43xx)
Sound: works
Video: works
USB: works
Firewire: don't know
Media card reader: works for Secure Digital (SD) media, don't know about others
Touchpad or other pointing device: works
Accelerator buttons (music, DVD, web, other): don't work
Adaptive CPU speed: works.
Sense battery level: works if power up on battery. Doesn't work if just remove power chord
Suspend (manual): works
Suspend (close lid): works
Hibernate (power button): works
3. Additional information
I was unable to get a fully functional wireless connection to work with the bcm43xx module. It would connect at 11mbs if I ran my access point with no security but would not authenticate if I enabled WEP. I have not re-tested with WPA-PSK authentication.
4. Comments
After going through significant pain to get Linux on my laptop when I first bought it, installing CentOS 5 was a snap.
Output of lspci for my laptop:
[root@spindle ~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 10)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge
00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc SB400 AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)
03:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
03:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
03:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller
03:04.3 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx21 Integrated FlashMedia Controller
03:04.4 Class 0805: Texas Instruments PCI6411/6421/6611/6621/7411/7421/7611/7621 Secure Digital Controller
03:06.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)