Fedora on an ASUS G23-B2 [It works!]

[Claude Jones]

Claude Jones wrote:
> I was just seeking a quick answer to the question of whether anyone 
> was successfully running Fedora on this model laptop
>
To answer my own question, I was able to get Fedora  8 installed on this 
machine. Two issues giving me 'problems' are getting the wireless Intel 
4965AGN card working properly. Its driver is supposedly built in to the 
kernel, which is confirmed by the fact that it simply 'just 
works'....sometimes. There's no rhyme or reason to it so far. I click 
and configure, this, that, the same things over and over, but 
occasionally with a different, successful, result. Then, thinking I've 
got it, I try the same thing on next reboot, and it's all broken again... 

Second issue is with an Audigy USB external audio card - audio is coming 
out crackly and distorted. Internal audio is fine.

I had many problems installing any distro on this machine, but, I 
flashed the BIOS, finding a newer version on the ASUS site; the 
automatic ASUS update utility had not identified it, so it required 
looking for it and a manual install. After that BIOS update this model 
ASUS with BIOS Ver212 is up and running with Fedora 8