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EmyrB

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From: Wales, UK

Registered: 2006-09-04

Posts: 122

Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Pro 2040

Hi all,

I have been tinkering away with Arch on an old Gateway Solo 9300 laptop at home. I have been provided by my work a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Pro 2040 laptop. Like all good techies, I repartitioned the drive and installed Linux . Now the flavour of Linux on it is Ubuntu 7.10 and everything works (including the wireless) as I am pretty sure that everything is Intel based (I might be wrong here) .

Correct me if I am wrong here, but is wireless support built into the kernel? Or does Arch just purely rely on ndiswrapper (I got a netgear PCMCIA card to work on the Gateway with ndiswrapper )?

The reason I ask is, even though I like Ubuntu, I have been very taken with Arch and the philosophy that you build a distro with what you want in it. How easy is it on Arch to have bling bling like Compiz-Fusion and AWN?

Cheers

EmyrB

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Zerathidune

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Registered: 2007-02-25

Posts: 102

Re: Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Pro 2040

yes, there is wireless support in the kernel. You only need ndiswrapper if there are no native linux drivers for your specific card.

I have an intel based laptop myself, and didn't have any trouble getting wireless working (about as close to out of the box as you can get with something like arch.)

I'm not terribly familiar with AWN, but there seems to be a package for it in the aur that has been flagged as safe, so that shouldn't be difficult. compiz-fusion is fairly simple to get running. check the wiki.

EmyrB

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From: Wales, UK

Registered: 2006-09-04

Posts: 122

Re: Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Pro 2040

AUR? what is AUR?

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ibendiben

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Registered: 2007-10-10

Posts: 519

Re: Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Pro 2040

It is quit easy to do a search in the wiki for 'aur' to find any documentation. There is a lot covered in the wiki, check it out sometime. Anyway here is a link to the AUR-page:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR
probably the beginners guide will come in very handy too:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arc … wbie_Guide

Last edited by ibendiben (2007-12-07 12:13:14)

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EmyrB

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From: Wales, UK

Registered: 2006-09-04

Posts: 122

Re: Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Pro 2040

Cheers ibendiben, I shall have some bed time reading to do

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