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Having recently got the HP nw9440 I naturally installed F7 on it. This laptop works great with F7, particularly when the install is combined with the tips from mjmwired. Most of the features in the laptop work with a normal F7 install, with three exceptions: the built-in card reader, the wireless adapter, and the suspend function.

To get the built-in card reader working, simply add these two lines to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file:

modprobe tifm_core
modprobe tifm_sd

For the wireless use the ipw3945 source from sourceforge. The ipw3945 from atrpms does not currently install due to a dependency problem. Note that all you need is the ipw3945 source, the other parts (ipw3945d, ipw3945-ucode, and 80211) can all be retrieved from atrpms.

If you are ever looking for some amazing eye candy for Linux, try Beryl. On fedora 7 beryl installs easily by issuing a “yum install beryl*”. You can then use Beryl on your favourite window manager (such as kde) by selecting System -> Beryl Manager from your menus.

Installing JBoss 4.2 application server (AS) on fedora 7 is quite simple but there are a couple of potential gotchas and the documentation is not very clear, so here are some brief notes on how to get it running: