Odd Dvdburner hardware

[YodaSabre]

I found out from Compaq that my DL dvd burner must have Roxio software to burn dvds windows simply won't burn anything. When i talked to the tech he said it is builtin to the hardware to function that way is there a way in Sayabon to dvds with out Roxio. I will test it with the Live cd I have.

If anyone has info on how to configure a Broadcom 802.11g wireless adapter that would be a major help
I have all my network info just getting that figured i don't know.

[WarraWarra]

Roxio is the dvd burning software in widows that can work and should be on some of the install disks that comes with the pc.
You can use any dvd burning software as it might burn DL dvd's or only dvd-rw dvd-r dvd+r or similar.
You can use magic iso / express dvd burn / nero but someone had bugs burning with nero last 2 days ?
There should be some free dvd burning software as well.

In linux I am sure the dvd drive will work upto it's max read / write type. No roxio needed for linux or even for windows.

What would you like to know about the broadcom cards and installing / getting it to work
Also what model is it.

You might have to look at "lspci" as typing this in terminal program as a root user.

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sabayonuser@sabayonx86 ~ $ su
Password:
sabayonx86 sabayonuser # lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 01)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce Go 7800 GTX] (rev a1)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card (rev 01)
sabayonx86 sabayonuser #


It should end up looking similar.
If it shows this card is recognized then can move onto next step.

# net-setup
follow the options until complete and then ifconfig

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sabayonx86 sabayonuser # ifconfig
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 11:22:33:44:55:66
          inet addr:192.168.1.128  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::216:ceff:fe37:23b2/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:63656 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:34817 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:92076478 (87.8 Mb)  TX bytes:2838629 (2.7 Mb)
          Interrupt:17 Memory:ecffc000-ed000000

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:320 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:320 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:29490 (28.7 Kb)  TX bytes:29490 (28.7 Kb)


Or eth1 might be wlan0 = same thing depends on the driver.
Now you have internet.
You can also use the white small box top right next to time "knetworkmanager" and click it to connect to "linksys" or whatever it shows.

Shout if you need more help.

[YodaSabre]

I'll try the settings for the adaptor as for the dvd burner the hardware is setup in a way that even with a clean install from a basic windows disk not the one that came with the laptop. windows could never burn with it only when i installed roxio did it even see that a blank dvd was in the drive everytime before it showed as a cd-rom when it was scanning it for data.

[WarraWarra]

Sounds like it has a fancy driver for it. Well you can give it a try and see if it works , dvd burning and trying linux + testing dvd in linux. That is the nice part about live dvd no install needed except maybe to use the dvd drive .

Also if you want to just try it first time there is 2 programs, virtualbox or even vmware would work and what it does is to create a virtual pc on windows with say linux running inside of this.This way you can play around with it then once rdy install it to the hard drive of your pc / laptop.