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
Screen
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 :)
Bluetooth
Ethernet
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