Contents
Preface
Hardware
[root@pscmbp001 ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor  : 0 vendor_id  : GenuineIntel cpu family  : 6 model  : 14 model name  : Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2600 @ 2.16GHz stepping  : 8 cpu MHz  : 2287.197 cache size  : 2048 KB physical id  : 0 siblings  : 2 core id  : 0 cpu cores  : 2 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 mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx constant_tsc pni monitor vmx est tm2 xtpr bogomips  : 4332.24 processor  : 1 vendor_id  : GenuineIntel cpu family  : 6 model  : 14 model name  : Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2600 @ 2.16GHz stepping  : 8 cpu MHz  : 2287.197 cache size  : 2048 KB physical id  : 0 siblings  : 2 core id  : 1 cpu cores  : 2 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 mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx constant_tsc pni monitor vmx est tm2 xtpr bogomips  : 4327.65 [root@pscmbp001 ~]#
[root@pscmbp001 ~]# lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03) 00:07.0 Performance counters: Intel Corporation Unknown device 27a3 (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) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #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 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller IDE (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M56P [Radeon Mobility X1600] 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 22) 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. Unknown device 001c (rev 01) 0c:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW323 (rev 61) [root@pscmbp001 ~]#
Basic Setup
Install FC6 an usual…
Add livna repository
rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm
Fix Screen resolution
Download ati-driver
wget https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-8.29.6.run
Run
aticonfig
Keyboard settings
Note: These are generic instructions. Thus they also apply to Ubuntu and other kind of linux.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=198453
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro
xmodmap -pke > ~/.Xmodmap
Change the following lines:
keycode 49 = less greater backslash brokenbar backslash brokenbar keycode 94 = section degree notsign notsign notsing notsign keycode 116 = ISO_Level3_Shift NoSymbol Pointer_Button3
Get xkbset from http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen/software/xkbset/xkbset-0.5.tar.gz
tar xvfz xkbset-0.5.tar.gz cd xkbset-0.5 make mv xkbset ~/bin
xkbset exp m xkbset m
Mouse settings
Atheros with madwifi
Because of a bug in anaconda you have to reinstall the kernel-rpm:
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/6/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i686.rpm rpm -ihv --force kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i686.rpm
Then you can install the madwifi driver and kernel-module with:
yum install madwifi
Next we install kismet with
yum install kismet
To configure kismet we have to edit /etc/kismet/kismet.conf:
source=madwifi_ag,wifi0,addme
Then start kismet 🙂
Under investigation
Kernel panic APIC
From time to time you may got:
Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel. ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IP-APIC Kernel panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work! Boot with apic=debug and send a report. Then try booting with the 'noapic' option
At the moment I just reboot. I didn’t successed to force and reproduce the problem.