Friday, March 17, 2006

Running Linux on a Laptop (Wipro's Little Genius 9220)

Wipro's Little Genius 9220 laptop has the following configuration
http://www.wipro.in/products/mobilecomputing/index.htm

I installed Fedora Core 4 without problems. As i booted into Linux, i realised that the resolution was a dismal 800*600 using the generic vesa driver. The laptop has an intel 915 chipset and immediately set about looking for relelvent drivers.

i did the following

1) i downloaded drivers from the freedesktop.org site
Result: dint work

2) I downloaded the source from intel linux drivers site for 915
Result: got a compilation error regarding GL

3) I downloaded the rpm from the intel linux drivers site
Result: Yipeeeeee!!! restarted fc4 and i got the 1024*768 resolution
the 1280 resolution i guess is not supported by the lcd monitor

Once the display driver was up, i set about getting the wireless drivers and cards configured.
this was fairly easy.
1) got the ieee80211 code, compiled and installed
2) got the ipw2200 package and got it compiled and installed
3) got the ipw firmware and got it installed
4) did a modprobe ipw2200 and yipee! again!!!!! wireless works too!!

4 comments:

Tatavarty Kalyan said...

Congratulations!! dude on getting married and the also on getting Linux working on the new laptop :)..
I am chilling in Singapore and Howz Pills?

Anonymous said...

I have the driver cd for wlg-9220. What driver you needed exactly ?.

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Nitin_Chayande said...

I am in need of Lan drivers for WLG 9220 model. can any body help me in this regard.

Ameya said...

Send me an email at ameya.mitragotri at gmail.com and i can send you the drivers