Adventures with free Emachine Model# W3507

rokytnji · **Posted:** Mon Jun 20, 2011 11:37 pm

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.

So. I google. Tried all kinds of Bios settings and changes. Ya know what fixed it? :!:

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:** Tue Jun 21, 2011 1:05 am

Gitter done.

Code:

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.

Code:

# 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.

Cuttlefish · **Posted:** Tue Jun 21, 2011 1:08 am

Very awesome rok!!

rokytnji · **Posted:** Tue Jun 21, 2011 10:42 am

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.

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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Code:

# 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

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dark-D · **Posted:** Wed Jun 22, 2011 12:29 am

want the wallpaper. sakasa is my main man for wallpapers, you are my main man for motorcycle porn.

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rokytnji · **Posted:** Wed Jun 22, 2011 2:45 am

Here ya go bro.

http://motorcycles.desktopnexus.com/wallpaper/586858/

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