Comments below.
On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 10:55 -0800, Paul Rennix wrote:
I just set up FC3t3 on a Toshiba p35 s609 - it went well!
I set it up as a dual boot with the oem WinXP Home SP2 and used knoppix to
resize the partition and then installed FC3. NO disk geometry problems!! I
didn't use any of the workarounds that were necessary with fc2, and the
install was flawless.
Glad to hear it. Mine install went OK that way as well.
Now I only have a couple minor problems to work through. One, is
the
convoluted process that I am finding to install drivers for artheros wifi -
which I have gone through twice now without success. I know its a longshot,
but has anyone had success with these drivers on fc3?
Not those, but the Broadcom drivers on a ZD7000. We all use the
ndiswrapper, which is simple and works well. See
zd7000forums.com under
Linux. There is a HOWTO there that explains it pretty well.
Also, the install failed to recognize the touchpad which windows
reports to
be an "alps pointing device" which is a touchpad and 2 buttons (no
"stick.")
It is doing well with a wireless usb mouse, though.
Can't help you here. The Linux synaptics touchpad driver works
exellent, better than the Windows version. Did we expect any less ?
I figured I would have some problems along these lines on such a new
device
(released in July I believe). More than anything I am SO GLAD that the disk
geometry bug seems to have been fixed. Good work!
I found it very neat to be able to resize the ntfs partition and thus
avoid having to re install XP.
If anyone has any advice on the atheros/madwifi problem or the
touchpad I
would love to hear from you.
Try ndiswrapper. A bunch of us are using it problem free on the
ZD7000s. Our wireless light even lights up.
-Paul Rennix
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