Re: How about the support of FC for laptop?

From: Scot L. Harris (webid_at_cfl.rr.com)
Date: 10/31/04

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Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 13:11:01 -0500

    On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 12:16, Park Lee wrote:
    > Hi,
    > Would you please tell me How about the support of Fedora Core for
    > notebook PC(aka laptop)? and what kinds of notebook PC can be
    > supported by Fedora Core (such as FC2, FC3) ?
    >
    > Thanks a lot !

    Not real sure what questions you have about laptop support. FC2 works
    just fine on the old Dell Latitude CPx laptop I have been using it on.
    Probably the most difficult item to get working is wireless. This is a
    general problem for Linux not just FC. To get wireless working you need
    to figure out what chip set your particular wireless card uses and then
    find either a native driver which is available for some or try to use
    ndiswrapper and use the windows driver for your wireless card. In my
    case I am using a Dlink DWL-G650 with prism54 driver. Works well. It
    would be nicer if there were tools that made it easier to detect
    wireless networks and make the connection. iwlist scan works to find
    the networks but a better tool that let you detect and then configure
    for the network would be nicer.

    The other issue I had with laptop support is that for pcmcia network
    adapters (wireless or wired) you need to tell it NOT to start at boot
    time. When pcmcia services are started later on the network interfaces
    will be started anyway.

    I was surprised that sound worked with no problem. When I loaded FC2 on
    my laptop I did not bother trying to do the dual boot thing. Personally
    I think dual booting causes more problems than it is worth. I have
    found native applications for everything I need to do. I use this
    laptop for work every day.

    Depending on your laptop your mileage may vary. But all in all it
    worked out better than I had originally expected.

    All in all I have been very pleased with FC2 on my laptop. And I do not
    see ever going back to a windows based laptop. 

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Scot L. Harris
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