Options For Installing Fedora To Older Laptop

[Robert L Cochran]

Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote:

> akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
>
>>>I don't think you will have any problem installing FC-3
>>>if you put in a new disk.
>>>192MB RAM is plenty for this purpose.
>>>      
>>>

I did get Fedora Core 3 installed on the nice new laptop hard drive. Not 
without 2 tragedies -- I'll explain in a separate thread. It is a good 
thing I have a selection of wireless PC Cards. I couldn't get 
ndiswrapper 1.0 to load properly on the 667 kernel, so my Buffalo 54g 
card wouldn't work. I then popped in my SMC 2835w card, which uses the 
Prism54 driver. After manually installing the firmware needed in 
/lib/firmware, that got my network up.

Then I rebooted the machine to make the wireless card would come to 
life. Instead Kudzu came up, and I told it to configure the wireless 
card. Telling kudzu to configure a device usually works, but not this 
time. It wiped out my ssid setting, which in turn hung eth0 by the toes. 
I restored the ssid setting in the "System Settings --> Network Devices" 
applet, and that got me connected to the access point again.

Now I have up2date running for the first time. As soon as it finishes 
installing the numerous updates (tomorrow morning at the earliest on 
this machine), I'll recompile ndiswrapper and see if I can return to my 
Buffalo wireless card, which I can't live without. It has an external 
antenna jack so I can connect my "cantenna" to it and get much improved 
signal reception.

Bob