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    • raymac46
      A New Arch Linux Install

      By raymac46 · Posted

      As many of you know, I have been nursing and updating an Arch Linux installation on an ancient Toshiba NB305 netbook for the last 8 years or so. This came to an end yesterday when the netbook battery died. I wanted to continue on with vanilla Arch, so I selected a new junker candidate - an HP Broadwell laptop from 2016 with a 1 TB SSD, Intel graphics, 8 GB RAM. This one had been running Linux Mint Xfce but I didn't need it for visitors usage. I decided to install Arch in its place. Got the iso and imaged it onto a USB stick without a problem. I booted the iso but when I tried iwctl to get online there was no wifi interface. I expected this because the HP had one of those balky Broadcom chipsets. I plugged in a USB wifi dongle, and although I now had a wlan0 interface I still could not find any networks. I spent some time researching the problem and after rfkill unblock commands and powering the interface up and down, eventually I found my LAN and connected. Then I ran the archinstall script and this is a beautiful thing. After going through all the configuration steps and selecting an Xfce desktop, I let it run and everything worked out great. After a reboot I was in a basic Xfce desktop. I suppose I could have done it manually but the script makes things so much easier, and you don't miss anything. Still no native wifi so I installed the broadcom-wl driver and I have native wifi now - no dongle needed. After that I installed yay just in case I need anything from the AUR. I also added the Whisker Menu to pretty things up. The HP is far more powerful and modern so hopefully I'll be set for a few more years of Arch.  
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      Show Us Your GNU/Linux Desktop

      By raymac46 · Posted

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      Nearing the End

      By raymac46 · Posted

      Well, I've removed the SSD and I'll recycle the old Toshiba. But I'm back in business. I have another laptop which runs Intel Broadwell. I had Mint Xfce installed but I prefer Arch. So I've used the archinstall script to do the installation. Very fast and easy. I have some tweaking to do but it looks pretty good so far. For simplicity I'm sticking with Xfce as I have tons of RAM compared to the netbook. I can use Firefox and don't have to mess with lightweight and glitchy browsers.   [ray@archlinux-ray ~]$ inxi -Fxz System: Kernel: 6.15.6-arch1-1 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.1.1 Desktop: Xfce v: 4.20.1 Distro: Arch Linux Machine: Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Pavilion Notebook v: Type1ProductConfigId serial: <superuser required> Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 8092 v: 89.33 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Insyde v: F.82 date: 08/18/2016 Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 14.2 Wh (61.2%) condition: 23.2/23.2 Wh (100.0%) volts: 15.1 min: 14.8 model: Hewlett-Packard Primary status: discharging CPU: Info: dual core model: Intel Core i5-5200U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Broadwell rev: 4 cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 512 KiB L3: 3 MiB Speed (MHz): avg: 898 min/max: 500/2700 cores: 1: 898 2: 898 3: 898 4: 898 bogomips: 17558 Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 Graphics: Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 5500 vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-8 bus-ID: 00:02.0 Device-2: Chicony HP Truevision HD driver: uvcvideo type: USB bus-ID: 1-3:3 Display: x11 server: X.org v: 1.21.1.18 driver: X: loaded: modesetting dri: iris gpu: i915 resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo/xrandr> resolution: 1366x768 API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: iris,swrast platforms: active: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device inactive: wayland API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 25.1.5-arch1.1 glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 5500 (BDW GT2) API: Vulkan v: 1.4.313 drivers: intel surfaces: N/A devices: 1 Info: Tools: api: eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo de: xfce4-display-settings x11: xprop Audio: Device-1: Intel Broadwell-U Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:03.0 Device-2: Intel Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 API: ALSA v: k6.15.6-arch1-1 status: kernel-api Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.6 status: active Network: Device-1: Broadcom BCM43142 802.11b/g/n vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: wl v: kernel bus-ID: 08:00.0 IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 bus-ID: 09:00.0 IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter> Bluetooth: Device-1: Broadcom BCM43142A0 Bluetooth 4.0 driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB bus-ID: 1-7:4 Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: not found rfk-block: hardware: no software: no address: see --recommends Drives: Local Storage: total: 894.25 GiB used: 7.42 GiB (0.8%) ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Patriot model: Burst Elite 960GB size: 894.25 GiB Partition: ID-1: / size: 878.13 GiB used: 7.25 GiB (0.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 ID-2: /boot size: 1022 MiB used: 172.5 MiB (16.9%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 Swap: Alert: No swap data was found. Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 41.0 C mobo: N/A Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A Info: Memory: total: 8 GiB available: 7.67 GiB used: 661.2 MiB (8.4%) Processes: 173 Uptime: 0m Init: systemd Packages: 608 Compilers: gcc: 15.1.1 Shell: Bash v: 5.3.0 inxi: 3.3.38 [ray@archlinux-ray ~]$  
    • raymac46
      Nearing the End

      By raymac46 · Posted

      Well folks I think the end is here for this old netbook. And it's a hardware failure - namely the battery has stopped charging. Attempts to reset the battery charging have failed. I have to pull out the SSD and then it'll be off to Staples for recycling. I do think that experiments with this netbook have proven the point that Arch can be installed once and run for a long time, which was my original objective.
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