HP EliteBook 2530P

Any tips how to make the HP buttons work under Ubuntu? I am still on Karmic and the only button that works is “mute”. I would really like at least the following to work:
- wifi indicator .. at the moment, the indicator is blue all the time
- volume up/down buttons
- the info and presentation buttons are not that important, but it would be interesting to know how to map them to something useful..

Thanks.

“Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN” wireless network card is not working on my HP2530p. The Wireless network is disabled, and when I try to turn it on, only the bluetooth turn on and the wireless card remains off. I already putted iwl5000-firmware.ucode into /lib/firmware but nothing change.

HP EliteBook 2530p works with Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala” live CD. Display, keyboard, mouse, sound and wireless are automatically configured.

http://www.iki.fi/karvinen/hp_elitebook_2530p_with_ubuntu_linux.html

Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN network card working after putting iwl5000-firmware.ucode in /lib/firmware.
Debian squeeze, 2.6.30-2

With Ubuntu 9.10 beta I've noticed an issue with the mute button still, but slightly different.

Pressing the mute button will mute the internal speakers, but not the headphone jack. Also, enable mute with the headphones connected and then disconnect the headphones. Mute will get disabled automatically for you for some reason.

@Michal Kaut: you are right speakers are on all the time along with the headphones, but if you press the “mute” button on the top of the laptop, near the volume control, you can mute the speakers ;) and the headphones will still work :)
at least here it works :|

bye

AuthenTec 2810 fingerprint reader (08ff:2810 AuthenTec) doesn't work under linux at this time. Older models are functional but this new line seems to have encrypted USB communication and scanned fingerprint images cannot be simply captured. I wrote to AuthenTec and received following answer: 'Currently AuthenTec does not support Linux. We are in the process of developing a Linux offering and we have strong hopes this comes to fruition in the future. Please feel free to check back in with us every so often to see where we are on Linux support.'

I was unable to boot liveCD/install Ubuntu (8.04,8.10,9.04alpha4). It got stuck on CPU Thermal message (when running without battery inside) or on battery status (when running with battery inside). I had to use alternate CD (8.10) with acpi=off to install ubuntu and after installation I had to modify menu.lst for grub with acpi=off parameter. With ACPI off everything is very limited (CPU freq. scaling, power management, quick buttons etc.)
SOLUTION TO RUN LINUX ON THIS LAPTOP WITH ACPI ENABLED: set 'Enable the fan while AC is On' to Disabled. Then everything runs out-of-the-box. Thanks to http://anholt.livejournal.com/40006.html

For enabling sound under Ubuntu 8.10 I used the options posted by stego_s_aurus
in http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-940689.html but changed the model option to “laptop” as follows:

# Add the following lines to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=1
options snd-hda-intel single_cmd=1
options snd-hda-intel model=laptop

# Reboot laptop

There seem to be a lot of posts recommending the “enable_msi=1” option. Apparently, it helps with sound quality issues.

With Ubuntu 8.10, I found that:

* Sound works
* Wireless works
* Bluetooth works in simple tests
* USB works
* The card reader reads the SD card from my camera just fine
* The camera works in a quick test with 'luvcview' (though I didn't test microphone)
* The fingerprint reader doesn't appear to be supported yet (although I didn't invest much time in that)

lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
00:03.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset MEI Controller (rev 07)
00:03.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PT IDER Controller (rev 07)
00:03.3 Serial controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset AMT SOL Redirection (rev 07)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82567LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M-E LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection
44:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
44:06.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
44:06.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev ff)

lsusb:

Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 004: ID 04f2:b082 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd 
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 03f0:171d Hewlett-Packard Wireless (Bluetooth + WLAN) Interface [Integrated Module]
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 08ff:2810 AuthenTec, Inc. 
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub