Adventures with free Emachine Model# W3507

rokytnji · posted: 2011-06-20 21:37

In another thread

viewtopic.php?f=43&t=3206

I described how I got this freebie. Since I last posted. I tore down the IBM Aptiva and low and Behold. I found a Seagate Barracuda 120gig drive in the old Aptiva. So spent the day tearing down and swapping parts out. I found that somebody had installed the pin jumper all wrong on the 120gig drive for starters.

Then saw that the hardrives I was pulling out of the emachine was a 8 gig and also another 2 gig IDE drive. Bet you that they were supposed to be in the Aptiva because of Windows ME being on the 8gig.

Long styory short. The Emachine now has a working 120gig drive. Bios sees it. Shows as 120gig in bios.

So off to the races with AntiX 11 base. I format the drive as 1gig of swap and the rest as ext4 /. I point the base installer to the drive and tell it to keep /home so it won't reformat.
When done. I shutdown. Pull the CD. Turn it on.

PXE-E61 Media test failure, check cable
Operating System not found
Insert Boot disk and press any key to continue.

__{{emoticon}}__ So. I google. Tried all kinds of Bios settings and changes. Ya know what fixed it? __{{emoticon}}__

Booting up the live CD again. Deleting my Ext4 partition. leaving it deleted. Then ran the installer again and picked nooby install to entire drive option. That worked on a reboot. Go figure. Emachine is a funny creature any hows. At least I did not have to buy it.

Doing a Liqourix kernel and a dist-upgrade and will see if I can get ATI going (yeah that is the graphics chip). Posting now from Laptop while watch smxi do it's thing. Will repost from Desktop when done.

rokytnji · posted: 2011-06-20 23:05

Gitter done. __{{emoticon}}__

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harry@biker:~$ inxi -F
System:    Host biker Kernel 2.6.38-7.dmz.2-liquorix-686 i686 (32 bit) 
           Desktop Fluxbox 1.3.1 Distro antiX-M11-base-686 Jayaben Desai 25 April 2011
Machine:   System GATEWAY product W3507 version 500
           Mobo Intel model D102GGC2 version AAD70214-201 Bios Intel version GC11020M.15A.2010.2006.0817.0956 date 08/17/2006
CPU:       Single core Intel Celeron D (-UP-) cache 512 KB flags (lm nx sse sse2 sse3) clocked at 3199.986 MHz 
Graphics:  Card: ATI RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200] X.Org 1.10.2 driver radeon Resolution 1280x1024@85.0hz 
           GLX Renderer Gallium 0.4 on ATI RC410 GLX Version 2.1 Mesa 7.10.2
Audio:     Card ATI IXP SB4x0 High Definition Audio Controller driver HDA Intel Sound: ALSA v: 1.0.23
Network:   Card Realtek RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ driver 8139too 
           IF: eth0 state: down speed: 10 Mbps duplex: half mac: 00:16:76:dd:65:f5
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 120.0GB (1.7% used) 1: /dev/sda ST3120213A 120.0GB 
Partition: ID:/ size: 109G used: 2.0G (2%) fs: ext3 ID:swap-1 size: 2.17GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 45.2C mobo: 45.3C 
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 2291 fan-2: 1094 fan-4: 0 
Info:      Processes 75 Uptime 7 min Memory 103.7/435.9MB Client Shell inxi 1.7.4

That is it for today. This baby runs wireless through ceni.

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# ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:16:76:dd:65:f5  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:9 Base address:0x8000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:2692 (2.6 KiB)  TX bytes:2692 (2.6 KiB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:e0:4c:5a:56:07  
          inet addr:edited by me  Bcast:edited by me  Mask:edited by me
          inet6 addr: edited by you know who Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:4402 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4072 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:2185250 (2.0 MiB)  TX bytes:1042206 (1017.7 KiB)

WoooHooo. __{{emoticon}}__

Cuttlefish · posted: 2011-06-20 23:08

Very awesome rok!!

rokytnji · posted: 2011-06-21 08:42

This is about as far as I have gotten so far. Java done. xarchiver done. Sticking with rox instead of other file managers. Will use Antis thread for rox automount.

Thanks Cuttlefish. __{{emoticon}}__

I'll post my .conkyrc since you have problems with temps. (unless I am mistaken with another users post)
I just edited the stock .conkyrc. Nothing fancy yet.

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# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen

TEXT
${color}AntiX-M11-base-686
${color}$sysname $kernel
${color}Uptime: $uptime
${color}${time %a %d %b %k:%M}
${color}Monitors:
${color}Cpu: ${color}${cpu}%
${color}Fan: ${color}${hwmon fan 1}
${color}Temp: ${color} ${hwmon temp 1}C
${color}Ram : ${color}$mem${color}/${color}$memmax ${color}- ${color}$memperc%
${color}Swap: ${color}$swap${color}/${color}$swapmax ${color}- ${color}$swapperc%
${color}Processes: ${color}$processes  ${color}running: ${color}$running_processes
${color}Link Strength: ${color} ${wireless_link_bar 7,50 wlan0}
${color}Root:${color} ${fs_free /} ${color}= ${fs_free_perc /}%

Now with wbar

dark-D · posted: 2011-06-21 22:29

want the wallpaper. sakasa is my main man for wallpapers, you are my main man for motorcycle porn. __{{emoticon}}__ )

rokytnji · posted: 2011-06-22 00:45

Here ya go bro.

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