FC2 on Toshiba Laptop

[-=Brian Truter=-]

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> jiri.kanak at telecom.cz
> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 4:41 AM
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> Subject: FC2 on Toshiba Laptop
> 
> Hi all,
> 
>     anywone with FC2 on Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100? Any 
> experiences?  I have burned CD's but getting courage to wipe 
> out my working RH9
> 
> Regards
> 
> Jiri
> 
> 
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I installed FC2 on my Satellite 2805 last night. It didn't work out well at
all. While I had no installation problems, many other things were a mess.

The PCMCIA card was not detected. The onboard ethernet was detected, but did
not work when set up via DHCP or static IP. I could not get on the network
no matter what I tried. My USB mouse would not function. The LCD was not
detected by the installer, but worked ok when I set it up manually.

It was exteremly slow. The results of a simple ps command took over 2
minutes to run. Some applications just didn't do anything at all. 

While I didn't have any error messages, it was still unusable for me. After
trying to get things going after a couple hours, I finally gave in, and just
re-installed FC1, which works perfectly by the way.

I would like to have been able to spend more time trying to figure out the
problems, but I had to have it working by the time I went back to work.