install Fedora 9 on Toshiba Satellite A305-S6825

[Steven F. LeBrun]

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> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 9:22 PM
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> Subject: install Fedora 9 on Toshiba Satellite A305-S6825 
>
> I have installed Fedora 9 on Toshiba Satellite A305-S6825 by doing the
below steps:
> 1.      Disabled built in LAN in the setup.
> 2.      Installed Fedora 9 on Toshiba Satellite A305-S6825. 
> 3.      Went back and enable the built in LAN in the setup to get the
ethernet card to works.
> The problem when I start the computer I get the black screen and Fedora
doesn?t load.  And if I disable > > the built in LAN I don?t get network
device in my machine.
> Can someone help me please?

Hi,

What kernel is did you install when you installed Fedora 9?

I had similar problems with my wireless card when I first tried to install
Fedora on my Toshiba Satellite A305-S6825.  The kernel with the original
spin of Fedora 9 would not work with my NIC.  The newer kernels for Fedora 9
work fine.  I am currently running kernel 2.6.26.6-76.fc9.i686.

There is a new spin of Fedora 9 that should have a working kernel (working
with the Toshiba Satellite A305 series NIC).  If you do not have that spin,
you can download the rpm files for the latest kernel and install the latest
kernel manually with the rpm command.

I had multiple computers and was able to download the kernel rpm package
from my Windows machine.  If you have only a single computer, you may
consider installing Fedora 8 (which did not have the NIC problem),
downloading the latest FC9 kernel and then either installing or updating to
Fedora 9.

Steven F. LeBrun                     

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