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Hewlett-Packard NC8000
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1 46603 05-20-2004
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100% of reviewers None indicated 7.0
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Description: NC8000:

CPU: Intel Pentium 4M 1.5GHz
MEM: 512 MB (333 MHz) DDR SDRAM
HDD: 40 GB (5400 rpm) model: HTS548040M9AT00
NIC: 10/100/1000Mbit/s model: Broadcom BCM5700 (note: tg3 driver used)
Graphic Card: ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 Pro with 64MB
Audio: HP Premier Sound™ sound with two stereo peakers
I/O ports: Secure digital (SD) slot, USB 2.0 (2), 1394, serial, parallel, S-video out, VGA, RJ-45/RJ-11, Infra Red, Audio in/out, Docking connector
Keywords: HP NC8000 COMPAQ ATI RV350 Radeon 9600
/sbin/lspci output: 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #1) (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #2) (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB (Hub #3) (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB2 (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge (rev 83)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DBM LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DBM Ultra ATA Storage Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]
0000:02:06.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc.: Unknown device 7223
0000:02:06.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc.: Unknown device 7223
0000:02:06.2 System peripheral: O2 Micro, Inc.: Unknown device 7110
0000:02:06.3 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc.: Unknown device 7223
0000:02:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
0000:02:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 165e (rev 03)


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Old 05-20-2004, 03:59 PM   #1
BeerGuy
 
Registered: May 2004
Distribution: SuSe 9.1 ROCKS MY WORLD!!!
Posts: 5

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 7

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.4-54.5-default
Distribution: SuSe 9.1



The only beef I have with this NC8000 laptop is with the internal NIC. The Broadcom device does not (or cannot!) get an IP address when using dhcp on boot-up. For some reason, the IP address is only picked up *after* the boot sequence has finished. To make matters worse, the NIC **NEVER** succeeds in getting an IP address when I connect to my cable modem. The investigation continues!

The correct driver (tg3) was picked up and installed by YaST2 upon first-time installation, and apparently (from my exhaustive research) there should not be any problem using the tg3 driver.

Please note that I did not have trouble getting an IP address when I connected the NIC to an enterprise LAN.
 




  



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