On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 15:33, Pierre De Boeck wrote: > Hi again, > > I am still in the process of "asking questions" for installing > FC1 in dual-boot with an already installed XP. > > To recap my system: > - Dell Inspiron 5150 > - 512MB DDR333 > - HDD 60GB. XP is installed on a 25 GB partition > and I plan to install FC1 on the rest. > - nvidia GEForce FX 5200 > - broadcom 440x 10/100 NIC > - miniPici wireless 802.11g > - ACPI > - USB mouse > - CD-RW/DVD > > After some reading, it seems that I have to get > drivers from nvidia, broadcom plus an ACPI patch > and some kernel recompilation will be needed. > > So my questions: > > - is the 3 ISO FC1 cds are enough to recompile the kernel > or I need some extra packages. In other words, do these CDs > contain the kernel soures plus the gcc and all the related > stuff. Yes > - what is the general step-by-step procedure to recompile > a kernel. Pierre, I am still confused by your need to recompile the kernel. I am using the NIC "out of the box" without problems with a stock FC1 kernel. ACPI is enabled, the system does not overheat and that is with the 3.2 Ghz P4 HT (disabled) CPU running the UP kernel. I have the internal touchpad working along with an external USB keyboard and mouse. I installed the NTFS read only kernel module from: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/fedora1.html I installed the NVidia 5336 drivers from the NVidia site, which require that the driver be compiled (ie. kernel source is installed, but no kernel recompile). There are other RPMS out there kindly provided by folks in this community which would circumvent the need for even that step. I see that you have the CDRW/DVD, but I have the DVD+R/RW working to both display movies and audio (ie. Ogle/MPlayer/XMMS) and to do DVD burning for backups (k3b). The only things that I don't have working yet are the internal modem, suspend/resume and the internal WiFi, none of which I need at this point. There appear to be drivers out there for the WiFi from my reading of the Dell Linux Boards at: http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board?board.id=linuxport however the consistent message is one of frustration with the Broadcom internal modem in those same forums. Keep in mind that folks on those forums are running various Linux distros, not just FC. There are also folks there running 2.6 version kernels, that both solve and create problems. Perhaps I am missing something basic in what you are trying to do, but to date, I have not had a need to recompile the kernel. HTH, Marc Schwartz
