hp elitebook 6930p + centos 5.4 = successful install

Hi guys,
just got my hands on HP laptop from my employer, installed CentOS and all working, (almost all 'outta box'), so I can recommend it for linux, if someone else is interested ...
Had only small issue with video (a bit googling) and wifi (downloading firmware).

1. download intel 5300 wifi firmware:
http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/?n=downloads&f=ucodes_5000
- just download needed 5300 firmware file, save, untar and the file "*.ucode" in the:
/lib/firmware (in my case it was "iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode")
- CentOS specific:
- disabled 'network service':
chkconfig network off
and enabled NetworkManager:
chkconfig --level 345 NetworkManager on
service NetworkManager start
- done

2. video (small) problem:
it has intel gma 4500mhd integrated vga - problem was that by default the 'vesa' driver was used, that's capable of only 1024x768 and my screen has native 1280x800 ...
After a bit of googling, I found I need to install:
xorg-x11-drv-i810.x86_64 package, that includes the needed xorg driver - as you can see:

[root@czchown0013139 /]# rpm -ql xorg-x11-drv-i810.x86_64
/usr/lib64
/usr/lib64/libI810XvMC.so.1
/usr/lib64/libI810XvMC.so.1.0.0
/usr/lib64/xorg/modules
/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers
/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/ch7017.so
/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/ch7xxx.so
/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/i810_drv.so
/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so
/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/ivch.so
/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/sil164.so
/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/tfp410.so
/usr/share/hwdata/videoaliases/i810.xinf
/usr/share/man/man4/i810.4.gz
/usr/share/man/man4/intel.4.gz

In case you have another distro and have intel integrated graphic (and it's not working out of box), look for distro related package! E.g. in Fedora its "xorg-x11-drv-intel".

Next, I edited xorg.conf and changed 'vesa' (which was default installed) for 'intel' here:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "intel"


3. because I wanted to see my HW specs (and I cant get into Bios because it's corporate laptop with bios pwd protection) I installed rpmforge repo - install directions here:

http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge

4. installed from rpmforge repo:
lshw and lshw-gui :
yum install lshw.x86_64 lshw-gui.x86_64
It's very nice utility which enables you easily gather HW info from your lappy (maybe you got it in your distro too)

That's all, install done and here you can see the HW specification of HP EliteBook 6930p:

Detailed (in case of someone's interest) Laptop spec:

product: HP EliteBook 6930p
vendor: Hewlett-Packard
version: F.13
width: 64 bits
capabilities:
SMBIOS version 2.4,
DMI version 2.4,
64-bit processes,
32-bit processes

Motherboard
product: 30DB
vendor: Hewlett-Packard
version: KBC Version 87.28

Battery
TD06055
product: TD06055
vendor: CPT-EB3
version: 3B0B
slot: Primary
capacity: 5100mWh
configuration:
voltage: 11.1V

BIOS
/0/9
vendor: Hewlett-Packard
version: 68PCU Ver. F.13 (09/11/2009)
size: 64KiB
capacity: 1472KiB
capabilities:
PCI bus,
PCMCIA/PCCard,
BIOS EEPROM can be upgraded,
BIOS shadowing,
Booting from CD-ROM/DVD,
Selectable boot path,
Enhanced Disk Drive extensions,
Print Screen key,
i8042 keyboard controller,
INT14 serial line control,
INT17 printer control,
ACPI,
USB legacy emulation,
Smart battery,
BIOS boot specification,
Function-key initiated network service boot

CPU
product: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9600 @ 2.80GHz
vendor: Intel Corp.
bus info: cpu@0
version: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9600 @ 2.80GHz
slot: Intel(R) Genuine processor
size: 2801MHz
capacity: 2801MHz
width: 64 bits
clock: 266MHz
capabilities:
mathematical co-processor,
FPU exceptions reporting,
wp,
virtual mode extensions,
debugging extensions,
page size extensions,
time stamp counter,
model-specific registers,
4GB+ memory addressing (Physical Address Extension),
machine check exceptions,
compare and exchange 8-byte,
on-chip advanced programmable interrupt controller (APIC),
fast system calls,
memory type range registers,
page global enable,
machine check architecture,
conditional move instruction,
page attribute table,
36-bit page size extensions,
clflush,
debug trace and EMON store MSRs,
thermal control (ACPI),
multimedia extensions (MMX),
fast floating point save/restore,
streaming SIMD extensions (SSE),
streaming SIMD extensions (SSE2),
self-snoop,
HyperThreading,
thermal interrupt and status,
fast system calls,
no-execute bit (NX),
64bits extensions (x86-64),
constant_tsc,
ida,
pni,
monitor,
ds_cpl,
vmx,
smx,
est,
tm2,
ssse3,
cx16,
xtpr,
sse4_1,
lahf_lm,
CPU Frequency scaling
L1 cache
/0/0/3
slot: Internal Cache
size: 32KiB
capacity: 32KiB
capabilities:
Asynchronous,
Internal,
Write-back,
Data cache

L2 cache
/0/0/1
slot: Internal Cache
size: 6MiB
capacity: 6MiB
capabilities:
Asynchronous,
Internal,
Write-back,
Unified cache

Memory
SODIMM DDR2 Synchronous 800 MHz (1.2 ns)
/0/4/0
product: M4 70T5663QZ3-CF7
vendor: Samsung
slot: Top
size: 2GiB
width: 64 bits
clock: 800MHz (1ns)


Host bridge
/0/100
product: Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub [8086:2A40]
vendor: Intel Corporation [8086]
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
version: 07
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
configuration:
driver: agpgart-intel

Display controller Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD
/0/100/2.1
product: Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2A43]
vendor: Intel Corporation [8086]
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.1
version: 07
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities:
Power Management,
bus mastering,
PCI capabilities listing

Ethernet interface
/0/100/19
product: 82567LM Gigabit Network Connection [8086:10F5]
vendor: Intel Corporation [8086]
bus info: pci@0000:00:19.0
logical name: eth0
version: 03
serial: f4:ce:46:98:51:11
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 1GB/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities:
Power Management,
Message Signalled Interrupts,
bus mastering,
PCI capabilities listing,
ethernet,
Physical interface,
twisted pair,
10MB/s,
10MB/s (full duplex),
100MB/s,
100MB/s (full duplex),
1GB/s (full duplex),
Auto-negotiation
configuration:
autonegotiation: on
broadcast: yes
driver: e1000e
driverversion: 1.0.2-k2
duplex: full
firmware: 1.8-3
ip: 192.168.100.100
latency: 0
link: yes
multicast: yes
port: twisted pair
speed: 100MB/s
resources:
irq: 106
memory: 98800000-9881ffff
memory: 98824000-98824fff
ioport: 70e0(size=32)


Wireless interface
/0/100/1c.1/0
product: Wireless WiFi Link 5300 [8086:4236]
vendor: Intel Corporation [8086]
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: wmaster0
version: 00
serial: 00:21:6a:7f:7a:9a
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities:
Power Management,
Message Signalled Interrupts,
PCI Express,
bus mastering,
PCI capabilities listing,
Logical interface,
ethernet,
Physical interface,
Wireless-LAN
configuration:
broadcast: yes
driver: iwlagn
latency: 0
multicast: yes
wireless: IEEE 802.11
resources:
irq: 114
memory: 98600000-98601fff


Audio device
/0/100/1b
product: 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:293E]
vendor: Intel Corporation [8086]
bus info: pci@0000:00:1b.0
version: 03
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities:
Power Management,
Message Signalled Interrupts,
PCI Express,
bus mastering,
PCI capabilities listing
configuration:
driver: HDA Intel
latency: 0
resources:
irq: 185
memory: 98820000-98823fff

ATA Disk
/0/100/1f.2/0
product: ST9160411AS
vendor: Seagate
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sda
version: HP14
serial: 5TG0WHS7
size: 149GiB (160GB)
capabilities:
Partitioned disk,
MS-DOS partition table
configuration:
ansiversion: 5
signature: eb45eb45

SCSI CD-ROM
/0/100/1f.2/1
product: CDDVDW TS-L633M
vendor: hp
bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
version: 0301
capabilities:
support is removable
configuration:
ansiversion: 5