FC3 on Toshiba Satellite A15-S129 Laptop?

[Scot L. Harris]

On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 17:07, Rick Bilonick wrote:

> I tried to install FC2 months ago so I don't remember all the details 
> clearly. My memory was that the pcmcia slot did not work but I don't 
> think I knew enough at the time to try to restart it. (Now I realize I 
> should at least have tried to restart it.) Under RH9, the pcmcia slot is 
> activated first and then the network card is activated. Why would you 
> try to activate a pc-card network card before activating the pc-card 
> slot (if that is what FC2 was doing)?
> 

That is what it was doing!

> I looked at the D-Link DWL-G650 which Scott said used the prism54 
> driver. The box I saw at Best Buy today mentioned something about 
> atheros. Does prism54 support the atheros chipset?
> 

No you will need the madwifi drivers for an atheros chip set.  As I
mentioned before the vendors really make this difficult.  You almost
need to install a card and run lspci to see what the chip set is.  You
need to check the version numbers on the cards to find out what version
card you have.

> If I try to install FC3 on the laptop, it should install the pcmcia 
> driver and the prism 2 (orinoco) driver automatically, shouldn't it? (I 
> just installed FC3 on an older computer I had FC2 on and it installed 
> without any problems. I also have FC2 running on a new Athlon 64 system. 
> I just had the problem with the laptop.)
> 
> Rick B.

Hopefully that is what will happen.  

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