Robert F. Chapman wrote:
I also have an older IBM Thinkpad, mine is a A21p with 384MB ram and
runs just fine. The only issue I have had is getting my older LeArtery
Syncbyair wireless card to work. It is a older Intersil PRISM I card
and it looks like the orinoco_cs no longer supports PRISM I cards and
only supports PRISM II and above. This is a major bummer, as it worked
great in FC6..
Robert
I had wireless problems in F8 as well. I use an AT&T Plug&Share 6700G
(802.11g) via MadWifi. The card was seen, but would only connect to open
networks. Any other network, including networks it was already
configured for from FC6 - NetworkManager would ask for the WAP key (or
whatever) and ask if it could save it in my default keyring and then
fail to work. Switched to CentOS - and all the networks I had already
configured in my gnome-keyring all worked again no prompting for squat
(other than to unlock it).
I suspect in a couple months, F8 will be a nice kick ass distribution.
It's just not there yet.
Other "less than stellar" releases of Fedora that had problems at
release were kick ass a few months later. The bugs do get squashed. I
guess that's kind of what Fedora is there for, it isn't really there for
a stable environment from the start, that's what RHEL is for.
'course, RHEL has its own issues - some bugs fixed in Fedora ages ago
exist in RHEL 5 (like the 3dfx VooDoo tdfx driver - currently broken in
RHEL, I believe the exact same issue was patched in Fedora Core 6 fairly
quickly - I guess after they made the fork for RHEL)
