ToshibaNB205

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Intro

Hello Slakers!

I will talk about how to installing and use Slakware in a NB 205 from Toshiba. First of all i have to admit that i stayed really impressed with the design of NB205, he's fully portable and light, the screen with a 10.1" have a bad news: she only can do 1024x600 of size but not for us, slackers! ;) So before anything else, lets see some more informations about his technical specifications, down:

Technical Details

• Motherboard: Toshiba KAVAA - Chipset: Intel Callistoga-GSE i945GSE
• Processor: Intel Atom N280 1.6GHz
• Memory: DDR2-800/400/333/266 MHz - Comes to 1GB but you can upgrade to 2 GB.
• Video: Intel GMA 950 (1280x600)
• Hard Disk: 160 GB 5400 RPM SATA-II
• Webcam, Bluetooth, Ether/Wifi Network gigabit, Battery Life is 8 Hours!!!

CPU

# cat /proc/cpuinfo 
processor	: 0
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 28
model name	: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N280   @ 1.66GHz
stepping	: 2
cpu MHz		: 1000.000
cache size	: 512 KB
physical id	: 0
siblings	: 2
core id		: 0
cpu cores	: 1
apicid		: 0
initial apicid	: 0
fdiv_bug	: no
hlt_bug		: no
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 10
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm
bogomips	: 3325.16
clflush size	: 64
power management:

PCI Devices

# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
03:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)

USB Devices

# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04f2:b128 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd 
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:0159 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 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
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

Hard Disk

# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x91c391c3

Netbook Slakware Configuration

Network

• 03:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
• 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)

With those cards the netbook can give a improve in network performance and will grow like a little monster in your network, with a wifi module called 'ath9k' and network module called 'r8169' they can do great things :)

Wifi

If you want to use WPA/PSK:

wpa_passphrase <ESSID> <Passphrase>
# wpa_passphrase house littled0g > /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf.home 

If you see the file '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf.home'

network={
	ssid="house"
	#psk="littled0g"
	psk=9dbaaf7031fd8cbc03674337ee9c724b65811b36546d2234676060b4144872b8
}

Tests of Performance

# time dd bs=1k count=1000 if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/zero
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
1024000 bytes (1.0 MB) copied, 0.588823 s, 1.7 MB/s

real	0m0.593s
user	0m0.003s
sys	0m0.582s
# time dd bs=1k count=100000 if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/zero
100000+0 records in
100000+0 records out
102400000 bytes (102 MB) copied, 56.0481 s, 1.8 MB/s

real	0m56.053s
user	0m0.131s
sys	0m55.874s
# time dd bs=1k count=200000 if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/mkshit
100000+0 records in
100000+0 records out
204800000 bytes (205 MB) copied, 120.184 s, 1.7 MB/s

real	2m0.189s
user	0m0.445s
sys	1m58.237s