<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi Bruce,<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 at 21:24, bruce <<a href="mailto:badouglas@gmail.com">badouglas@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">looking at the hp 17z-cp300 amd ryzen 5 7530. $370.<br>
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I have no clue as to any of the ech specs. I'm going to try to get to<br>
the TechSupt of HP tomorrow to see if I can get data.<br>
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Short of that, i might purchase the item, and get my hands on it to<br>
see what it might have.<br></blockquote><div>As others have mentioned, lspci and dmidecode are good commands to find out what is inside your machine. I would also suggest the lsusb command as well.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
The goal would be to install liveusb/Ubuntu, and to see if I can use a<br>
sub/wifi. But I'm not sure if this would entail massaging the<br>
/etc/hardware with wifi mod files.<br>
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I'm not sure if I could/can/shold open the boz to insert a wifi<br>
replacement module either.<br></blockquote><div>I've never had to do that.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
thoughts/comments?<br></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_quote">Well... do you intend to buy the new laptop from a shop? If so, if you can sweet talk the shop's technical staff into letting you boot a live Ubuntu USB memory stick in the computer you intend to buy and checking out if WiFi etc are working, that would be ideal.<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">HTH,</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Ian</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>-- ACCU - Professionalism in programming - <a href="http://www.accu.org" target="_blank">http://www.accu.org</a><br></div>-- My writing - <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/</a><br><div>-- Free Software page - <a href="https://github.com/ian-bruntlett/TECH-Manuals/blob/main/tm-free-software.md" target="_blank">https://github.com/ian-bruntlett/TECH-Manuals/blob/main/tm-free-software.md</a><br></div><br> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>