HP (Hewlett-Packard) 2230S manual

Hp Com paq 2230s R e vie w and Ste p b y S tep Guide: A UNIX perspectiv e! By : Ka y a Ş aman[...]

Contents 1 . Exter nal 1 2. Inter nal and T ech Specs 1 3. Operating sy st em, usage and capabi lities 4 3. 1 Install 4 3.2 Conf iguration 5 3.3 Wireless setup 5 3.4 Upgrading sy stem com ponents 1 1 3.5 Usage and tes ting 1 3 4. Conclusion 1 9[...]

In this document I will re vie w the Hp Compaq 2230s notebook in terms of design and tech specs which will be totally opera ting sy stem e xclusi ve, then later on re view the sy stem coupled tog ether with a UNIX based operating sy stem using a hard disk install. T o start wit h let's approac h thi s sy stem from outside through inside dealin[...]

memory module) chip the amount of memory per area on-chip is doubled. Hence, instead of the sys tem maxing out at 4GB RAM, i t actually is abl e to giv e t he sys tem double whic h is t he reason for the 8GB in total. The machine in front of me has 2G B of memory which will be thoroughl y tested later on, but standard configurations are 2GB or 3GB [...]

As can be seen t he picture quality is cine-perf ect having a resolution of 1 366x7 68 which falls under the category of: Widescreen eXtended Graphics Ar ra y , ho w ev er there is no pix elation in the image at all and is totall y photo-realist ic. In a small off ice based en vironment, coupled t o a much smaller 4:3 f or mat S amsung LCD di spla [...]

radio f or connection to P AN (personal area netw ork) de vices such as cell phones, PD A's, wireless headsets etc. The Intel 802. 1 1 interface has dual radios which operate at the 2.4GHz and 5GHz frequency rang es. This means a,b,g, and n-draft compatibility so this notebook can connect to any wireless access point (W AP), e v en in t he Un [...]

f or mat, but ho we v er in this case I am going to restrict my self to simpl y e xt3. The sys tem comes wit h a 1 60GB HD, which is more t hen enough f or what I am going to use it f or with a s ingle OS based install seeing as I alwa ys w ork from ne twork serv er . Out of t his 1 60GB I will allocate 30GB to my r oot / par tition, 3GB to m y swa[...]

Runn ing i fconfig -a rev ealed all t he 'supported' i nterfaces on t his syste m. And fur t her r unning iwconfig re ve aled whic h inter face t he kernel detected with wireless e xtensions. The outputs below both show the system as being conf igured, how e ver as t his doesn't matter as without being conf igured they s till come up[...]

Bit Rate=48 Mb/s Tx-P ow er=1 5 dBm Re tr y min limit:7 R TS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B Encryption ke y:****-****-** Security mode:open P ow er Manag ement:off Link Quality=77/ 1 00 Signal lev el:-56 dBm Noi se lev el=-87 dBm Rx in valid n wid:0 Rx in valid crypt:0 Rx in valid frag:0 Tx e xc essive r etri es:0 In valid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 vbo x[...]

48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s Extra:tsf=00000bdb7 1ab6 1 8 1 Extra: Last beacon: 1 88ms ago Cell 03 - A ddress: 00:1A:A1:05:D6:C0 ESSID:"" Mode:Master Channel:9 Freque ncy:2.452 GHz (Channel 9) Quality=6 7/1 00 Signal le vel:-6 1 dBm No ise lev el=-88 dBm Encryption ke y:on IE: Un known: 000 543697 3636F IE: Un known: 0 1 0882848B0C1 296 1 824 IE: Un [...]

IE: Un known: 3204 1 224606C IE: WP A V ersion 1 Group Cipher : CCMP Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP A uthentication Suites (1) : PSK IE: Un known: DD 07000A5E0 1 0 1 0006 Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 1 1 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s 1 2 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 1 8 Mb/s 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s Extra:tsf=00000a6 1dbf1d037 Extra: Last beacon: 2432ms ago T able-3[...]

nameserver 1 92. 1 68. 1 . 1 00 nameserver 1 92. 1 68. 1 . 1 0 1 T able-6. Resol v .conf file entr ies. The domain and search criter ia are optional and only use ful if running author itative DNS serv ers in a netw ork. Since I am r unning prima ry and secondar y , master and s la ve DNS ser vers I hav e both dom ain and search listed wit h dual na[...]

;; Query time: 33 msec ;; SER VER: 1 92. 1 68. 1 . 1 00#53(1 92. 1 68. 1 . 1 00) ;; WHEN: Mon Au g 1 0 1 8:32:20 2009 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 1 96 T able-7 . DNS query exam ples. Ha ving replies in t he answer sections means that DNS information is functioning properl y . If not ho we v er t hen these tools can be used to perform diagnostics on the sy st[...]

Un fortunatel y , when booted into KDE4 no w nothing has c hanged. KDM and KDE4 are s till in 1 024x7 68 resolution with X org being in 1 280x800. The K desktop env ironment f or some reason has alw ay s seemed to not use Xo rg like the other desktop en vironments such as Gnome. For t his reason I am not sure if this is a KDE bug or if the DE can&a[...]

This brings us to the second step to t ry , which is installing the Gnome desktop envi ronment. This can be achie v ed by running: apt-g et install ubuntu-desktop. This installs a group of packag es negating the need to install ev ery Gnome component individuall y . Once installed and the g raphical user interface cust omized to my liking the sy st[...]

#mkdir codecs #cd codecs T able-1 1 . Step s to creating the codecs directory . Once done t here I will copy the source location from the all-2007 1 007 .t ar .bz2 rang e, r ight clicking on my mouse and t hen selecting: copy link l ocation No w I can use the wg et inter net grabber tool to pull t he compressed codec s directory directl y into the [...]

As can be seen from the lmsensors based Gkrellm2 temperature readouts t he system doesn't e ven hit 50 ˚ C of which m y older machines at this point would be up at between 80-90 ˚ C with full processor utilization. The 2230s def initely makes light w ork of t his with hardl y any CPU utilization per core and i n t ests was able to communicat[...]

SCR -5. Using the internal c amera as a capture interface. As w e can see, t hat is w orking, so no w we can mo v e o ve r to the next and final stage which will be testing the sys tem wit h Sun Microsy stems Virtual Box and the OpenSolaris der ivativ e BeleniX as t he guest based OS. The reason f or choosing BeleniX is larg ely political as I am p[...]

ge t them to r un smoothly eac h and since the sy stem is limited to 2GB memory it will be interesting to see if it locks up or not. The result is belo w: SCR -7 . Dual concurrent videos wit h virtuali zed operating sy stem. Amazing t he system didn't ev en buckle and rendered e verything perfectl y wit hout any hitches or glitches in any f or[...]

My final test to conclude t he revi ew and guide will be t he data center test where the battery longe vity will be tested while hooked up to ser vers and mainframes. As I am cur rentl y on vacation t his will be a bit tough to put i n practice 'in-t he-field', how e ve r I can r un a simulation in the data center I hav e at home. Because[...]

Of course the system w as not r unning on A C po wer meaning that this was a good t est f or the battery life of the four cells that made up the batter y pack of t his notebook. Ob viously this is a simulation and in reality one would be potentiall y connecting to tens or hundreds of these sy stems whet her it be ser v ers, routers or switches in t[...]