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Dear Sir,
I bought a LAPTOP Dell Inspiron 1525 core 2 duo T5800 and configured dual booting with xp sp2 and RHEL5 but problen is that the virtual consoles of CLI in linux is not opening and Ethernet card is not detecting.

I want to complete setup RHEL5 on my LAPTOP.Please help me how can i do this?
I am sending the output of lspci,lsusb and lsmod.
With best regards
Amit Kumar Singh.
New Delhi India.

[root@amit ~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation Mobile IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation Mobile SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
02:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0832 (rev 05)
02:09.1 Class 0805: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
02:09.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 (rev 12)
02:09.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
02:09.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown device 4354 (rev 12)
0b:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 USB Controller (rev 01)
[root@amit ~]#
[root@amit ~]# lsusb
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 006 Device 002: ID 05a9:2640 OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
[root@amit ~]#

[root@amit ~]# lsmod
Module Size Used by
vfat 15809 1
fat 51037 1 vfat
bridge 53725 0
netloop 10817 0
netbk 78017 0 [permanent]
blktap 385125 2 [permanent]
blkbk 21089 0 [permanent]
autofs4 23749 2
hidp 23105 2
rfcomm 42457 0
l2cap 29505 10 hidp,rfcomm
bluetooth 53925 5 hidp,rfcomm,l2cap
sunrpc 142973 1
ip_conntrack_ftp 11697 0
ip_conntrack_netbios_ns 6977 0
ipt_REJECT 9537 1
xt_state 6209 12
ip_conntrack 53153 3 ip_conntrack_ftp,ip_conntrack_netbios_ns,xt_state
nfnetlink 10713 1 ip_conntrack
iptable_filter 7105 1
ip_tables 17029 1 iptable_filter
ip6t_REJECT 9409 1
xt_tcpudp 7105 30
ip6table_filter 6849 1
ip6_tables 18181 1 ip6table_filter
x_tables 17349 6 ipt_REJECT,xt_state,ip_tables,ip6t_REJECT,xt_tcpud p,ip6_tables
dm_mirror 29840 0
dm_mod 56665 1 dm_mirror
video 19269 0
sbs 18533 0
i2c_ec 9025 1 sbs
button 10705 0
battery 13637 0
asus_acpi 19289 0
ac 9157 0
ipv6 251137 17 ip6t_REJECT
parport_pc 29157 0
lp 15849 0
parport 37641 2 parport_pc,lp
joydev 13185 0
sg 35933 0
snd_hda_intel 21589 1
snd_hda_codec 144321 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_seq_dummy 7877 0
snd_seq_oss 32705 0
snd_seq_midi_event 11073 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 49841 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 11853 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 42849 0
ide_cd 40033 0
sdhci 21337 0
pcspkr 7105 0
mmc_core 27585 1 sdhci
snd_mixer_oss 19137 1 snd_pcm_oss
cdrom 36705 1 ide_cd
serio_raw 10693 0
i2c_i801 11341 0
snd_pcm 72005 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
i2c_core 23745 2 i2c_ec,i2c_i801
snd_timer 25029 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 52037 11 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,sn d_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd _timer
soundcore 13217 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 13769 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
ata_piix 17609 6
libata 97625 1 ata_piix
sd_mod 22977 7
scsi_mod 130893 3 sg,libata,sd_mod
ext3 123081 4
jbd 56553 1 ext3
ehci_hcd 33229 0
ohci_hcd 23645 0
uhci_hcd 25677 0
[root@amit ~]#

RHEL knonw to have issues with cutting edge laptop and desktop hardware. RHEL for suitable for server side stuff. I suggest you get Ubuntu 8.10.

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