On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 4:44 AM, Jonathan Allen
<jonathan(a)barumtrading.co.uk> wrote:
I have an old laptop that got upgraded this week from WinXP to F14
after a
massive virus/trojan hit :-(
The laptop has the Realtek RTL8178 wireless chipset and did wireless fine in
WinXP. Although it can see the wireless network fine, it won't connect in
F14.
I downloaded the F16 Live CD and the wireless works and connects perfectly,
so whatever was wrong with the RTL8178 stuff has been fixed between F14 and
F16. However, as far as this laptop is concerned, F16 has downgraded to
Gnome3, which the laptop can't run.
The choices seem to be:
a. F16 without Gnome 3
b. back-fitting the working RTL8178 stuff into the (otherwise fine)
F14 installation
Recommendations or instructions?
I'd recommend F16 with XFCE.
Install XFCE and then change or create /etc/sysconfig/desktop to:
$ cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop
PREFERRED=/usr/bin/startxfce4
Or just re-install the system from the F16 Live XFCE CD,
which is what I did.
I've been using this combo on my Dell Latitude E6410 and an older
Dell Latitude D630, and I'm very pleased with it.
--
Dale Dellutri