I just set up FC3t3 on a Toshiba p35 s609 - it went well!
I set it up as a dual boot with the oem WinXP Home SP2 and used knoppix to resize the partition and then installed FC3. NO disk geometry problems!! I didn't use any of the workarounds that were necessary with fc2, and the install was flawless.
Now I only have a couple minor problems to work through. One, is the convoluted process that I am finding to install drivers for artheros wifi - which I have gone through twice now without success. I know its a longshot, but has anyone had success with these drivers on fc3?
Also, the install failed to recognize the touchpad which windows reports to be an "alps pointing device" which is a touchpad and 2 buttons (no "stick.") It is doing well with a wireless usb mouse, though.
I figured I would have some problems along these lines on such a new device (released in July I believe). More than anything I am SO GLAD that the disk geometry bug seems to have been fixed. Good work!
If anyone has any advice on the atheros/madwifi problem or the touchpad I would love to hear from you.
-Paul Rennix
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On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 10:55 -0800, Paul Rennix wrote:
I just set up FC3t3 on a Toshiba p35 s609 - it went well!
I set it up as a dual boot with the oem WinXP Home SP2 and used knoppix to resize the partition and then installed FC3. NO disk geometry problems!! I didn't use any of the workarounds that were necessary with fc2, and the install was flawless.
Glad to hear it. Mine install went OK that way as well.
Now I only have a couple minor problems to work through. One, is the convoluted process that I am finding to install drivers for artheros wifi - which I have gone through twice now without success. I know its a longshot, but has anyone had success with these drivers on fc3?
Not those, but the Broadcom drivers on a ZD7000. We all use the ndiswrapper, which is simple and works well. See zd7000forums.com under Linux. There is a HOWTO there that explains it pretty well.
Also, the install failed to recognize the touchpad which windows reports to be an "alps pointing device" which is a touchpad and 2 buttons (no "stick.") It is doing well with a wireless usb mouse, though.
Can't help you here. The Linux synaptics touchpad driver works exellent, better than the Windows version. Did we expect any less ?
I figured I would have some problems along these lines on such a new device (released in July I believe). More than anything I am SO GLAD that the disk geometry bug seems to have been fixed. Good work!
I found it very neat to be able to resize the ntfs partition and thus avoid having to re install XP.
If anyone has any advice on the atheros/madwifi problem or the touchpad I would love to hear from you.
Try ndiswrapper. A bunch of us are using it problem free on the ZD7000s. Our wireless light even lights up.
-Paul Rennix
I can't begin to count how many times people have helped me with stuff. It is the least I can do to return some of the favors I've gotten. Now it is your turn to help someone.
On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 18:14 -0700, Paul wrote:
On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 11:03 -0700, Kim Lux wrote:
Try ndiswrapper. A bunch of us are using it problem free on the ZD7000s. Our wireless light even lights up.
Thank you so much for pointing this out. I now have my wifi working!
-Paul
On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 10:55 -0800, Paul Rennix wrote:
I just set up FC3t3 on a Toshiba p35 s609 - it went well!
I set it up as a dual boot with the oem WinXP Home SP2 and used knoppix to resize the partition and then installed FC3. NO disk geometry problems!! I didn't use any of the workarounds that were necessary with fc2, and the install was flawless.
Now I only have a couple minor problems to work through. One, is the convoluted process that I am finding to install drivers for artheros wifi - which I have gone through twice now without success. I know its a longshot, but has anyone had success with these drivers on fc3?
Also, the install failed to recognize the touchpad which windows reports to be an "alps pointing device" which is a touchpad and 2 buttons (no "stick.") It is doing well with a wireless usb mouse, though.
ALPS requires kernel patches for support, when they go upstream we'll get the support.
Paul
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Paul Rennix wrote:
Now I only have a couple minor problems to work through. One, is the convoluted process that I am finding to install drivers for artheros wifi - which I have gone through twice now without success. I know its a longshot, but has anyone had success with these drivers on fc3?
Yes, I've used it on a thinkpad T40 - and it works. What problems/errors do you get?
I just do a 'cvs co' make make install
Satish
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Paul Rennix wrote:
Now I only have a couple minor problems to work through. One, is the convoluted process that I am finding to install drivers for artheros wifi - which I have gone through twice now without success. I know its a longshot, but has anyone had success with these drivers on fc3?
Yes, I've used it on a thinkpad T40 - and it works. What problems/errors do you get?
I just do a 'cvs co' make make install
Satish
That's what I did, too. I then rebooted, the configuration tool came up, but then the error was something along the lines of "device does not appear to be present"
I also tried to use the madwifi rpms to no avail.
-Paul
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 paul@thespps.org wrote:
I just do a 'cvs co' make make install
Satish
That's what I did, too.
Did you encounter any errors?
I then rebooted, the configuration tool came up, but then the error was something along the lines of "device does not appear to be present"
Please post the output of the following commands.
/sbin/lspci /sbin/lsmod | grep ath modprobe ath_pci
I also tried to use the madwifi rpms to no avail.
Thats no good. You need to grab the rpm that matches the kernel version (I don't think there is one for any of hte FC3test kernels)
Satish
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