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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