Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote:
akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I don't think you will have any problem installing FC-3
if you put in a new disk.
192MB RAM is plenty for this purpose.
I did get Fedora Core 3 installed on the nice new laptop hard drive. Not without 2 tragedies -- I'll explain in a separate thread. It is a good thing I have a selection of wireless PC Cards. I couldn't get ndiswrapper 1.0 to load properly on the 667 kernel, so my Buffalo 54g card wouldn't work. I then popped in my SMC 2835w card, which uses the Prism54 driver. After manually installing the firmware needed in /lib/firmware, that got my network up.
Then I rebooted the machine to make the wireless card would come to life. Instead Kudzu came up, and I told it to configure the wireless card. Telling kudzu to configure a device usually works, but not this time. It wiped out my ssid setting, which in turn hung eth0 by the toes. I restored the ssid setting in the "System Settings --> Network Devices" applet, and that got me connected to the access point again.
Now I have up2date running for the first time. As soon as it finishes installing the numerous updates (tomorrow morning at the earliest on this machine), I'll recompile ndiswrapper and see if I can return to my Buffalo wireless card, which I can't live without. It has an external antenna jack so I can connect my "cantenna" to it and get much improved signal reception.
Bob
