newbie Laptop install

Josh Coffman josh_coffman at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 10 14:26:18 UTC 2005



--- "Paul M. Summitt" <psummitt at summittnewmedia.com>
wrote:

> New to Fedora although I have installed Red Hat
> versions several times in
> the past as far back as Version 6.  Have always had
> problems with laptops.
> Have the installation on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 with
> 366 MHz CPU and 192 MB
> RAM.  Installed the Fedora Core Workstation option. 
> Using a 3Com PCMCIA
> Network card and can not seem to get it to see the
> network.  Also having a
> video problem when I try to shut down.  Screen goes
> crazy with digital
> information and I end up having to manually push the
> button to shut down.
> This box was previously running Win2KPro with no
> problems.  Any ideas?
> Anyone point me toward some documentation that might
> be of assistance?  I
> really want to get this laptop up and running with
> this if possible.  Thanks
> in advance for any assistance you might be able to
> provide.
>  
> 
> paul
> 
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Found this when looking up your laptop:
http://www.shroom.com/linux/laptop/8000.html

hope it helps.

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