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• Contact: Brandon Lovejoy: 8.10, Dariusz Panasiuk: 9.04

• Brand: Compaq
• Make : Presario
• Model: V5000
• Website:
• S/N: Only needed if you have a Canonical supplied laptop

Pending issues

• Brandon Lovejoy: I am presently unable to complete an install with either Breezy, Dapper or Edgy. Here's a link to the bug report I've posted on Launchad. https://bugs.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/73687 I look forward to filling out the rest of this report, any help greatly appreciated.

• Dariusz Panasiuk: Ubuntu 9.04 installs and works fine.

Known hardware

sudo lshw -short

                               system         Presario V5000 (EW848EA#ABU)
/0                             bus            30AE
/0/0                           memory         103KiB BIOS
/0/4                           processor      AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technolog
/0/4/5                         memory         1MiB L2 cache
/0/4/0                         memory         128KiB L1 cache
/0/4/1                         memory         1MiB L2 cache
/0/c                           memory         512MiB System Memory
/0/c/0                         memory         512MiB DIMM DRAM Synchronous
/0/c/1                         memory         DIMM DRAM [empty]
/0/100                         bridge         RS480 Host Bridge
/0/100/1                       bridge         RS480 PCI Bridge
/0/100/1/5                     display        Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)
/0/100/5                       bridge         RS480 PCI Bridge
/0/100/13                      bus            IXP SB400 USB Host Controller
/0/100/13.1                    bus            IXP SB400 USB Host Controller
/0/100/13.2                    bus            IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller
/0/100/14                      bus            IXP SB400 SMBus Controller
/0/100/14.1        scsi0       storage        IXP SB400 IDE Controller
/0/100/14.1/0      /dev/sda    disk           100GB ST9100825A
/0/100/14.1/0/1    /dev/sda1   volume         39GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/100/14.1/0/2    /dev/sda2   volume         54GiB Extended partition
/0/100/14.1/0/2/5  /dev/sda5   volume         1906MiB Linux swap / Solaris parti
/0/100/14.1/0/2/6  /dev/sda6   volume         188MiB Linux filesystem partition
/0/100/14.1/0/2/7  /dev/sda7   volume         52GiB Linux filesystem partition
/0/100/14.1/1      /dev/cdrom  disk           DVDRAM GMA-4082N
/0/100/14.3                    bridge         IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge
/0/100/14.4                    bridge         IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge
/0/100/14.4/2                  network        BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g
/0/100/14.4/6      eth0        network        RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
/0/100/14.5                    multimedia     IXP SB400 AC'97 Audio Controller
/0/100/14.6                    communication  SB400 AC'97 Modem Controller
/0/101                         bridge         K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTranspo
/0/102                         bridge         K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
/0/103                         bridge         K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Control
/0/104                         bridge         K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneou
/1                             power          
/2                 wlan0       network        Wireless interface
/3                 pan0        network        Ethernet interface

sudo lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:05.0 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 11)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 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 02)
00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc SB400 AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02)
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)
06:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
06:06.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

sudo lsusb (without any external device)

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

System info

system-manufacturer (dmidecode -s system-manufacturer):

Hewlett-Packard

system-product-name (dmidecode -s system-product-name):

Presario V5000 (EW848EA#ABU)      

system-version (dmidecode -s system-version):

F.41

Achievements - results

(*) Notes and recipes

• For Wifi card and PSTN modem you need to use Ubuntu propriety "hardware drivers"

great choice for Linux laptop

See also

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