Hello guys i bought a new HP laptop Pavilion dv2700

its a pretty good laptop here are some information about it

* Dual-core processing with Intel’s® Centrino® Duo Mobile Technology or AMD’s Turion™ 64 x2 Mobile Technology
* Intel® wireless technology with WWAN
* Built-in 1.3-megapixel webcam
* HP Quick Play
* Optional fingerprint authentication technology
* Optional broadband connectivity—without a hotspot—with the Verizon Wireless V740 1XEVDO PC ExpressCard.

and it has a fingerprint reader , i tested it under Ubuntu hardy everything works in a good way

but you have to install the nvidia driver and you have to fix the wireless problem because in the previous versions

of Ubuntu they where using ipw* drivers but in hardy they changed it to iwl* and that version of the driver is kinda

buggy the driver doesn’t support SCAN_CAPA = 0×0 which prevent it to connect to hidden networks

and it doesn’t support LED controlling but Ubuntu has made some patches to avoid these problems

you have to download and install linux-backports-modules-hardy-generic package

you have to enable the unstable updates (hardy-backports) from synaptic then go to your terminal and do the following

qnix:> aptitude search linux-backports-modules-hardy-generic
p   linux-backports-modules-hardy-generic             - Backported drivers for generic kernel image
qnix:> apt-get install linux-backports-modules-hardy-generic
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
linux-backports-modules-2.6.24-19-generic
The following NEW packages will be installed:
linux-backports-modules-2.6.24-19-generic linux-backports-modules-hardy-generic
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 449kB of archives.
After this operation, 1348kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
linux-backports-modules-2.6.24-19-generic linux-backports-modules-hardy-generic
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed/main linux-backports-modules-2.6.24-19-generic 2.6.24-19.17 [423kB]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed/main linux-backports-modules-hardy-generic 2.6.24.19.21 [26.5kB]
Fetched 449kB in 2s (158kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package linux-backports-modules-2.6.24-19-generic.
(Reading database ... 145807 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking linux-backports-modules-2.6.24-19-generic (from .../linux-backports-modules-2.6.24-19-generic_2.6.24-19.17_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package linux-backports-modules-hardy-generic.
Unpacking linux-backports-modules-hardy-generic (from .../linux-backports-modules-hardy-generic_2.6.24.19.21_i386.deb) ...
Setting up linux-backports-modules-2.6.24-19-generic (2.6.24-19.17) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic
 
Setting up linux-backports-modules-hardy-generic (2.6.24.19.21) ...

thats it restart and enjoy the lighting LED and a good wireless performing ;)