Fedora 6 on Acer Aspire 1694WLMi

[Gianluca Sforna]

On 3/25/07, Martina Egger <csac3595 at uibk.ac.at> wrote:
> Hi,
>  since one year I´ve got an Acer Laptop with the following configuration:
>
>  Acer Aspire 1694WLMi
>  Intel Pentium M processor 760 (2GHz, 533MHz, 2MB L2 cache)
>  15,4´´ WSXGA+ TFT LCD
>  ATI Mobility Radeon X700 PCI Express With 256MB VRAM
>  120GB HDD
>  Slot-loading DVD-Dual
>  2GB DDR2
>  802.11b/g wireless LAN
>
>  Till half a year ago I tried and tried to install Fedora 5. But no chance!
> It didn´t work. Problems with the PCMCIA.

IIRC the stock FC5 hanged at "starting udev" because of a problem in
the pcmcia subsystem, but that was promptly fixed. I can not remember
if the problem/patch was properly broadcasted though...

>  But now, I want to try to install Fedora 6. Does anyone of you know, if
> there´s a chance, that it will work on my laptop?

I think so. But I suggest you download and install the latest respin from

http://torrent.fedoraunity.org/

as it contains significative bug fixes WRT the official FC6 release
(and you will need to download less updates after the installation...)