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Packard-Bell M5263 Easynote
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1 39133 12-26-2004
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Recommended By Average Price Average Rating
100% of reviewers $1,923.04 8.0
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Description: Packard-Bell Easy note M5326,
Running Fedora Core 3 (very successfully)
past run MDK10, SUSE 9, 10, Red Hat 9, Fedora core 1, and 2
Fujitsu 40Gb H/D No Win Partition
512mhz Ram
Intel Pentium 4 2.66Ghz i686
Connected through U.S ROBOTICS hub and Network
Keywords: M5623 laptop packard bell easy note fedora core
/sbin/lspci output: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 83)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
01:02.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller
01:04.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB-710/2/4 Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
01:04.1 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc CB710 Memory Card Reader Controller
01:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)


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Old 12-26-2004, 02:27 PM   #1
Ellylls_Grove
 
Registered: Dec 2004
Distribution: Fedora Core 3 (2.6.9-1.681 Kernel)
Posts: 15

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $1,923.04 | Rating: 8

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6_681
Distribution: Fedora Core 3



Forget using the Easy-note buttons, they won't work and the laptop hangs on shutdown, but causes no other problems than that and the Power button solves that one.
Be careful if you wish to keep Windows partitions as you wont be able to retrieve the MBR,(Fedora Core 1 & 2)also no floppy Obviously! or Packard Bell support as installing Linux invalidates warrenty..
Fedora core all flavours both installs and runs beautifully,
MDK10 had a few problems with the Network card.
SuSe was great and only encoutered problems when powering down during the force acpi stages.
All in all a robust Laptop and an even more robust O/S works well together. Just remember to peel off those disgusting Microsoft XP stickers and replace with a more eye catching Linux Flavour sticker..
 




  



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