New Install /w Misc. problems

From: Lloyd Hayes (lloyd545220-trucker_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/08/04

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    I'll start with the Xsane problems. Running FC2 on an older Gateway
    laptop, P1, 233 MHz, 128 MB RAM, 6 GB Hard drive.
    In addition to the above hardware, I have a HP PSC-1210 (All-in-one
    Scanner/Printer), 40 GB USB v2.0 Hard drive (Buslink), USB v2.0 52X
    CD-Burner/DVD Player, PCMCIA USB v2.0 hub, 2 PCMCIA 802.11b cards
    (Netware and a generic one which was free), PCMCIA US Robotics 802.11g
    card, Nikon camera w/usb connector, various other media usb connectors.

    Background: For the last few months, in my spare time, I've been using
    my backup computer to play around with putting FreeBSD 5.2.1, Slackware
    10.0, Red Hat 9, Debian "Sarge", and now I am back to putting Fedora
    Core 2 on it for the 2nd time. /(Fedora Core 1 simply refused to install
    on this computer.)/ At this point, Red Hat 9 is my favorite system and
    seems to work best, but has outdated drivers and doesn't seem to be
    supported any more. Fedora has the current drivers and it is supported,
    and it is only a small step down from Red Hat.

    1.) I'll hit the Wi-Fi cards 1st. I travel all of the time and hook
    exclusively into the Internet by WiFi systems across the country. I use
    my US Robotics "g" card most of the time since most systems are running
    at 5.4 MB/sec, but a few are only running at 2.2 MB/sec or "b" speeds.
    So far none of my cards has been supported by a UNIX type system. I'm
    curious if anything is being done in that area?

    2.) HP PSC-1210 printer/scanner. It prints out fine using the cups
    drivers. But Xsane is not showing up in Gnome, except in Gimp. When I
    run Sane under Gimp, it searches for the scanner and says that there is
    no scanner connected. After the search, it only gives me the option of
    closing the search program. I don't know of a way to manually configure it.

    3.) In the same line, this laptop has a neomagic sound system. None of
    the automatic detections systems can find it. On Red Hat 9, there was a
    configuration file to manually set the sound system. I can't find that
    on FC2. Anyone have any ideas here?

    4.) Mad Dog 52X CD-Burner/DVD Player. The system recognizes this unit
    connected by USB v2.0 plug. But seems unable to read or write to it. I
    thought that it was because it was hooked into the PCMCIA v2.0 hub. But
    the problems seems to exist when hooked into the older USB v1.0 plug,
    although the CD-Burner can not write very well from a v1.0 USB plug.
    This unit is less then 6 months old. Interestingly enough, I think that
    Red Hat 9 identified it and read from it OK. I didn't try writing to it.

    I haven't tried the camera or DV connections yet. This is simply the
    equipment that I carry with me all of the time and use on a regular
    basis while driving a truck across the country. When I get home, I have
    even more stuff that hooks into the computer by USB plugs....

    Both the hard drive and printer work fine from the USB plugs.

    5.) Checking system logs:
    mdmpd failed.

    6.) On Startup, I get:
    agpgart (Unsupported Intel Chipset: Device ID 7100)

    There are many issues here. I just re-installed FC2 yesterday. The Red
    Hat line of products seems to support laptops better then any other
    distribution. 

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