HARDWARE Gateway 6020

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This is a mid-range Gateway notebook which I purchased new in the states in August of 2005.

[edit] Kernel

Currently using linux-2.6.15-gentoo-r3.

[edit] Hardware

[edit] The Obligatory lspci Dump

Output of lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 83)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
02:02.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller
02:02.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
02:02.3 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx21 Integrated FlashMedia Controller
02:02.4 Class 0805: Texas Instruments PCI6411, PCI6421, PCI6611, PCI6621, PCI7411, PCI7421, PCI7611, PCI7621 Secure Digital (SD) Controller
02:04.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

[edit] CPU (Celeron-M)

There is a single CPU, a Celeron-M rated at 1.40GHz. It is (to the best of my knowledge) fully compatible with the Pentium-M and I have not noticed any problems with setting -march=pentium-m available in gcc 3.4.3 and higher (with earlier gcc versions I have heard that -march=pentium3 -msse2 is about as close as you can get, I recommend updating gcc if you have an older version).

I have not experimented with the special power saving features of this CPU yet.

[edit] Ethernet (Wired)

Ethernet is 10/100 using the Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02) Ethernet Controller. I use the b44 driver, compiled as a module:

CONFIG_B44=m

[edit] Hard Drive

Hard drive is a 60GB Hitachi IC25N060ATMR04-0.

Model=IC25N060ATMR04-0, FwRev=MO3OAD4A, SerialNo=MRG31YKKGAR7XH
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=7884kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=117210240
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes:  pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes:  mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5
AdvancedPM=yes: mode=0x80 (128) WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 3a:  ATA/ATAPI-2 ATA/ATAPI-3 ATA/ATAPI-4 ATA/ATAPI-5 ATA/ATAPI-6

I have not experimented with hard drive optimisation settings yet.

[edit] Modem

Never used the modem.

[edit] Sound

I use Intel 8x0 AC97 driver is configured as a module (snd_intel8x0) and it works fine.

[edit] Special Function Keys

Have not experimented with the special functions of the keyboard yet.

[edit] USB

I have not needed or experimented with USB devices yet.

[edit] Video (Intel 855GM)

The i830 driver locks up the computer when X initialises, but the newer i915 driver works fine.

As the lspci indicates, the laptop has an Intel video chipset and an Intel AGP controller, thus the kernel configuration for video modules:

CONFIG_AGP=m
CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=m
CONFIG_DRM=m
CONFIG_DRM_I915=m

Also the following lines in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6:

intel-agp
i915

...and the following config in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "Device"
        Option     "DRI"                        "True"
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "i810"
        VendorName  "Intel Corp."
        BoardName   "82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device"
        BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Mode    0666
EndSection

[edit] Wireless (Broadcom BCM4318)

The wireless chipset in this laptop is (from lspci) a Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller. Like most wireless chipset vendors Broadcom refuses to release specs or anything resembling a Linux driver for its wireless chipsets. Linux kernel 2.6.17 now has a native Broadcom 43xx wireless chipset driver which *should* work with this chipset (though I haven't tested it yet). At the time I configured my wireless, however I was unable to locate a Linux driver for this or any Broadcom wireless chipset. I was still able to successfully configure and use the wireless using the ndiswrapper and the Windows driver. I also wanted to use WPA wireless encryption and was sucessfully able to do so with wpa_supplicant:

cd ~
emerge -an ndiswrapper
wget ftp://ftp.gateway.com/pub/hardware_support/drivers/win_xp/portable/m360/D00268-001-002.exe
mkdir bcm4318
cd bcm4318
unzip -a ../D00268-001-002.exe
ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5a.inf
cd /etc/init.d
ln -s net.lo net.wlan0
emerge -an wpa_supplicant

Add the following line to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6:

ndiswrapper

Edit /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf to set the SID and access key, etc. Then add the following to /etc/conf.d/net:

modules=( "wpa_supplicant" )
wpa_supplicant_wlan0="-Dndiswrapper"
config_wlan0=( "dhcp" )

Then...

/etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start
rc-config add net.wlan0 default

At this point your wireless networking should be working like a charm (provided I haven't forgotten any of the steps here).

Linux Kernel 2.6.17 now includes a native Broadcom 43xx wireless driver. Though I haven't tested it yet I would recommend it over the process above and will add a writeup to this section on it when I have gotten the chance to test it.