On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 11:01 -0500, Claude Jones wrote: > To answer my own question, I was able to get Fedora 8 installed on > this machine. Two issues giving me 'problems' are getting the wireless > Intel 4965AGN card working properly. Its driver is supposedly built in > to the kernel, which is confirmed by the fact that it simply 'just > works'....sometimes. There's no rhyme or reason to it so far. I click > and configure, this, that, the same things over and over, but > occasionally with a different, successful, result. Then, thinking I've > got it, I try the same thing on next reboot, and it's all broken > again... I have a different Asus laptop, a PRO31J F3JC, using an Intel WM3945ABG wireless card, and it's somewhat similar in that from time to time the wireless wouldn't work, othertimes it'd work fine. Reboots were necessary to get it to work, at times. And with no changes of settings in between. This smacks of not too brilliantly designed hardware, hardware that doesn't reset itself properly when turned on, and drivers that can't cause it to reset itself, either. I'd also noticed that it would just about always manage to cause my friend's modem/router to reset while Fedora was booting up, disconnecting him. But I don't recall it doing that when I booted up in Ubuntu or Vista. I can only imagine that happening if it were spewing out garbage. I don't have a wireless router myself, and disconnecting a friend using his internet was being a nuisance, so I can't do much to diagnose things at this time. Given all the problems I'd noticed, I'm even less inclined into wanting wireless. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.23.1-10.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
