I recently bought an HP laptop (ProBook 4740s) with SLED 11 preinstalled (well it installed upon first powerup from recovery partition).
These few days I’ve been researching on Linux and my laptop and it seems that my SLED is ’ entitled to 90-days of updates’ . My SLED didn’t come with any activation code (HP licence number) or any install disk.
I was thinking of replacing SLED with openSuse since there are all the drivers for SLED on HP’s site. So linux n00b in me thinks that openSuse is the best bet of all the distros that those drivers will work even thou i found a thread from 2010 on this forum that it won’t.
I’m asking on this forum cause SLED forums are not so active like this one.
We normaly do not answer on SLED questions because most of us simply have no knowledge/experience woth SLED/SLES. A lot of people here even do not know what it is
My guess is that openSUSE (mark the way it is written) will have the drivers you need, but they will not come from the HP site. Why do you not try a Live CD on the system? It will tell you if the hardware is recocnised and can be used.
On Tue 12 Feb 2013 10:56:02 AM CST, koktelici wrote:
I recently bought an HP laptop (ProBook 4740s) with SLED 11 preinstalled
(well it installed upon first powerup from recovery partition).
These few days I’ve been researching on Linux and my laptop and it
seems that my SLED is ’ entitled to 90-days of updates’ . My SLED
didn’t come with any activation code (HP licence number) or any install
disk.
I was thinking of replacing SLED with openSuse since there are all the
drivers for SLED on HP’s site. So linux n00b in me thinks that openSuse
is the best bet of all the distros that those drivers will work even
thou i found a thread from 2010 on this forum that it won’t.
I’m asking on this forum cause SLED forums are not so active like this
one.
Hi
You purchase would have included at least a year of updates…? HP
create them specifically for SLE as most of the drivers a for the SLE
versions, not openSUSE eg wireless, you may need to build manually for
the openSUSE kernel.
I disagree, the forums are as active as required, if you had posted you
would have found that a HP person keeps an eye out for issues, the
License number is the activation code AFAIK…
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64) Kernel 3.4.11-2.16-desktop
up 4 days 15:40, 4 users, load average: 0.06, 0.05, 0.05
CPU Intel® i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | GPU Intel® Ironlake Mobile
> I was thinking of replacing SLED with openSuse since there are all the
> drivers for SLED on HP’s site. So linux n00b in me thinks that openSuse
> is the best bet of all the distros that those drivers will work even
> thou i found a thread from 2010 on this forum that it won’t.
Try out a live CD of openSUSE to find out if it works for you. No,
normally you can not interchange “drivers” from one to the other. But
make sure first that you really do not have SLED updates, and use those
till the end of support, then reconsider paying for more or moving over.
> I’m asking on this forum cause SLED forums are not so active like this
> one.
Ask there anyway.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
I did ask on SLED forums more than 24 hours ago but still no reply, that’s why I came here.
Funny thing is that I did not get any info with my laptop about SLED 11 like how long I can use it, not even a ‘Getting started’ booklet, no licence key.
But I won’t bug you anymore about SLED, I expected openSUSE on my laptop anyways.
I’ll try openSUSE Live CD and probably remove SLED cause Restore partition is getting in the way of my dual boot anyways.
On 2013-02-12 16:06, koktelici wrote:
>
> I did ask on SLED forums more than 24 hours ago but still no reply,
> that’s why I came here.
> Funny thing is that I did not get any info with my laptop about SLED 11
> like how long I can use it, not even a ‘Getting started’ booklet, no
> licence key.
That’s a shame.
I would be happy to try to help you, but I know very little about SLED.
I do remember a chap that got no response at all from the SLED forums
and turned to us. Some special product I don’t remember the exact name.
It took us a long time, perhaps weeks, but in the end we got the problem
solved.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
On Tue 12 Feb 2013 03:06:02 PM CST, koktelici wrote:
I did ask on SLED forums more than 24 hours ago but still no reply,
that’s why I came here.
Funny thing is that I did not get any info with my laptop about SLED 11
like how long I can use it, not even a ‘Getting started’ booklet, no
licence key.
But I won’t bug you anymore about SLED, I expected openSUSE on my
laptop anyways.
I’ll try openSUSE Live CD and probably remove SLED cause Restore
partition is getting in the way of my dual boot anyways.
Hi
You need to start a new thread, not tack on to existing ones, much
easier to find and also get some traction.
Since you seem to want openSUSE, once you get the system sorted, I
would look at a minimum setting the system to UEFI and installing
Windows, then add openSUSE.
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64) Kernel 3.4.11-2.16-desktop
up 4 days 19:13, 4 users, load average: 0.03, 0.04, 0.05
CPU Intel® i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | GPU Intel® Ironlake Mobile
On 2013-02-12 16:57, malcolmlewis wrote:
> Since you seem to want openSUSE, once you get the system sorted, I
> would look at a minimum setting the system to UEFI and installing
> Windows, then add openSUSE.
I think that it is one of those HP laptops that comes with SLES, not
Windows. It should have a recovery partition with functionality
equivalent to the HP Windows recovery partition, and absolutely all
hardware should be working, sometimes perhaps with additions from HP
that are not in the mainline SLES/SLED or openSUSE. Thus it is best to
try openSUSE live CD first before migrating.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
On Tue 12 Feb 2013 08:53:17 PM CST, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2013-02-12 16:57, malcolmlewis wrote:
> Since you seem to want openSUSE, once you get the system sorted, I
> would look at a minimum setting the system to UEFI and installing
> Windows, then add openSUSE.
I think that it is one of those HP laptops that comes with SLES, not
Windows. It should have a recovery partition with functionality
equivalent to the HP Windows recovery partition, and absolutely all
hardware should be working, sometimes perhaps with additions from HP
that are not in the mainline SLES/SLED or openSUSE. Thus it is best to
try openSUSE live CD first before migrating.
Hi
They come with SLED not SLES
Yes the HP systems are OEM, when activated via the HP license the OP
indicated it adds the HP online repositories as well as the SUSE ones.
The license key determines the repositories that are added via the
online registration process, so can be rebuilt from the standard
download of SLED, some things may not work until the online
repositories are added, but the restore image can always be dd’d off
to another device.
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64) Kernel 3.4.11-2.16-desktop
up 5 days 0:30, 4 users, load average: 0.06, 0.08, 0.06
CPU Intel® i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | GPU Intel® Ironlake Mobile
Hello! and hi! to all. I am a Linux noobie from Mumbai.India. I had previously used Redhat7.1, suse professional 9.1,9.3,10.1,10.3 and 11.4 on a custom built old PC. That PC is Beyond repairs, so I am in the process of getting a new custom built PC for past several months. I have tried several sources including various sites on internet for getting a compatible hardware for my opensuse11.3. But still I am not getting the proper information. The HCL for open suse 11.3 is not useful at all, because the components including motherboard,snd card,graphicscard etc are all outdated. I am therefore thinking to try open SUSE 12.2. Here again I very much would like to get a retail boxed pack from Open SUSE, but that seems to be impossible. Anyway my request to this forum members to suggest me if possible the compatible components that would work 100 % out of the box for the 12.2 version.
Motherboard-Make and model no.
Intel CPU
Graphics card
Sound Card
ADSL external modem.
Any other required things.
I am looking out for a dual boot system with one Hard disk for windows ( possibly Win7) and another Hard disk for linux i.e. open SUSE.,two DVD drives. Once I get this info, I will get in touch with PC vendors in Mumbai get the machine installed. The PC will be used for converting music Cassettes to CD/DVDs, internet surfing,creating some personal documents,and viewing some photos. There will be no commercial use.
Thanks and regards to all
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You are off topic. Kindly open a new thread in appropriate sub forum or you may incur the wrath of the mods.
Also read forum faq https://forums.opensuse.org/faq.php
HP625 (amd X2 cpu) was bought with SLED11 installed
For continuity reason the LiveCD12.1 was tried and it worked so installed
later LiveCD12.2 was also tried and installed, two problems encountered here,
never got ati proprietary graphics driver to work, but user happy with performance of radeon driver
(no problems with video in web browser, DVD’s or googleearth)
to get wireless to work the following lines were added to file /etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf,
#
blacklist b43
# trying to get wifi to work 26Aug2012
