Fedora - HP Compaq 615

[aelar]

Hey guys, is my HP Compaq 615 laptop ccomplatible with fedora ?

wanting to do the install and unsure if it will work. most websites ive looked at dont even say anything that helps me.

Regards.

 

[Fire3231]

At my previous job we purchased quite a few laptops where some users did want fedora to be installed. I also couldnt find any sites confirming it woud work but i installed it anyway and it worked fine for me. Hope this helps you out. Goodluck with your install.

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

If you are worried about compatibility, do a dual boot installation with your current OS and test it like that. That's your best option, unless somebody has the same laptop here with the same version of Fedora

 

[Nod]

http://blog.andreas-haerter.com/2011/10/09/hp-compaq-615-laptop-fedora-15-wlan

The HPC 615 was very popular because of its attractive cost-performance ratio.1) I just installed Fedora 15 Lovelock on a HPC 615 with AMD Athlon X2, 320GiB HDD, ATI Radeon HD3200 and 4GiB RAM. Everything works out-of-the-box with one exception: Wireless LAN. There was no firmware for the Broadcom BCM4312 WLAN chip. However. Version 4.150.10.5 of the proprietary firmware works like a charm:

The B43 firmware cutter tool is used to extract and install the proprietary Broadcom firmware. Use a LAN cable to get internet connection. Open a terminal and install it:

su -c 'yum install b43-fwcutter'

Download the firmware and use b43-fwcutter to extract and install it:

su -
    cd /tmp
    wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2
    tar xjf ./broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2
    cd ./broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5/driver/
    b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware/ wl_apsta_mimo.o

Reboot or restart the network. Your WLAN should work now.

 

[ponder]

Man up and try it!

 

[wishblade]

It seems the Broadcom drivers are a general issue to keep in mind when installing Fedora. Have a different laptop (toshiba) which I primarily run Fedora 15, and had problems with the Broadcom and ATI drivers. The latter I don't really need, and so am using he default galium drivers. The broadcom wireless drivers gave me a bit of a headache, BUT

I managed to download and compile/install something along the lines of hybrid-portsrc. The only issue is that its not persistent across kernel upgrades, so I just copied the instructions into a script and have it run whenever a kernel upgrade occurs.