First experiences with Fedora Core 2 Test 3

[Chris]

Hi all,

I have downloaded and installed FC2/T3 on my Acer TravelMate today.
The initial install went fine - no problems there.
After rebooting, the machine hung at kudzu (detecting new hardware).
I disabled that and rebooted, this time it hung at activating eth0 - I 
had given it a fixed IP address, no reason to hang.
Then I disabled networks from staring up, it hung at pcmcia
Disabled that, it hung at cups
Disabled that and it eventually booted.
But it had no X configuration, so it asked - told it what it is and it 
let me log in to GNOME. But it hung, after the FC2 banner shows up in 
the middle of the screen.
Switched to initlevel 3 and back to 5, logged into KDE. That worked ok 
but with no network, I feel kinda crippled.
There is also a dump when it tries to initialize the USB controller, 
'Unable to handle kernel paging request' is the message.

If anybody out there needs more info to fix these issues, I'd be more 
than happy to provide what I can.

And no, these are not newbe problems, I'm running Linux since Kernel 
version 0.9x ;-).

Best regards,
Chris

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Chris Ruprecht
Network Grunt and Bit Pusher extraordinaíre