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General Hardware Specifications of HP Pavillion dv2715nr:

This laptop is operating under Kernel version 2.6.22.

• Why to use Debian Testing

It was a good place to start to have new hardware support. Once I got it working, I switched to the unstable sources for access to cutting-edge packages.

• Obtaining Debian Testing

See Debain installation page.

• Installing

First, I had to shrink the Vista NTFS partition from within Vista itself. Linux refuses to work on Vista NTFS partitions at this time. Vista refused to give away more than 40GBs, even though there was a lot more free space.

Initially, I downloaded a small amd64 ISO image that I placed on a USB flash drive to boot up the laptop. However, I was later more successfull when I downloaded the full first installation DVD.

• Post-Install modifications/tweaks

I didn't have to do much:

1. To get the graphics card and webcam, I had to install the kernel-source package, manually configure the kernel and then use the make-kpkg commands to generate binary Debian packages from the nvidia-kernel-source and linux-uvc-source packages.
2. To get the wireless card working, I had to download the Dell driver package (R174291) and use the DRIVER/bcmwl5.inf file, because under Wine, I couldn't extract the Vista driver package I got from HP.

• Getting Suspend-to-Disk to operate correctly

I am still working on this. I got it to work once, but I am currently having problems.

• Getting the touchpad to operate as more than a PS/2 mouse

This is also a good idea, since the touchpad has the scroll area on the side that works as a nice scroller in Windows Vista.

• I couldn't get the Broadcom driver to work with the bcm43xx or b43 packages.
• Suspend to RAM and to disk does not work yet.

• I had to modify the /etc/udev/rules.d/persistent-net-generator.rules file to comment-out the line that assigned random MAC addresses to the ethernet device at every boot:

  # ignore interfaces with random MAC addresses
#ATTR{address}=="00:00:6c:*", GOTO="persistent_net_generator_end"

  Otherwise, you end up having a different ethernet device number every time (e.g., eth2, eth3, eth4, ...).

• lspci

00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP67 Memory Controller (rev a2)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP67 ISA Bridge (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP67 SMBus (rev a2)
00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0541 (rev a2)
00:01.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0543 (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a2)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev a2)
00:04.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a2)
00:04.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev a2)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP67 IDE Controller (rev a1)
00:07.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP67 High Definition Audio (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0561 (rev a2)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP67 AHCI Controller (rev a2)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 Ethernet (rev a2)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Express Bridge (rev a2)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP67 PCI Express Bridge (rev a2)
00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7150M (rev a2)
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
01:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
01:09.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
01:09.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 12)
01:09.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
01:09.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12)
04:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 USB Controller (rev 01)

• ndiswrapper -l

  bcmwl5 : driver installed
  	device (14E4:4315) present
        

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• The Linux on Laptops page for HP DV2530ee was quite useful.
• The Linux installation on this laptop was very similar to the HP DV2610US.
• Back to Linux on Laptops

Overall nice laptop. It gets a little hot, but the CPU frequency scaling works very well in Linux, going down to 800 MHz.