Re: FC3 on Toshiba Satellite A15-S129 Laptop?

From: Scot L. Harris (webid_at_cfl.rr.com)
Date: 02/07/05

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Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 19:34:12 -0500

    On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 17:07, Rick Bilonick wrote:

    > I tried to install FC2 months ago so I don't remember all the details
    > clearly. My memory was that the pcmcia slot did not work but I don't
    > think I knew enough at the time to try to restart it. (Now I realize I
    > should at least have tried to restart it.) Under RH9, the pcmcia slot is
    > activated first and then the network card is activated. Why would you
    > try to activate a pc-card network card before activating the pc-card
    > slot (if that is what FC2 was doing)?
    >

    That is what it was doing!

    > I looked at the D-Link DWL-G650 which Scott said used the prism54
    > driver. The box I saw at Best Buy today mentioned something about
    > atheros. Does prism54 support the atheros chipset?
    >

    No you will need the madwifi drivers for an atheros chip set. As I
    mentioned before the vendors really make this difficult. You almost
    need to install a card and run lspci to see what the chip set is. You
    need to check the version numbers on the cards to find out what version
    card you have.

    > If I try to install FC3 on the laptop, it should install the pcmcia
    > driver and the prism 2 (orinoco) driver automatically, shouldn't it? (I
    > just installed FC3 on an older computer I had FC2 on and it installed
    > without any problems. I also have FC2 running on a new Athlon 64 system.
    > I just had the problem with the laptop.)
    >
    > Rick B.

    Hopefully that is what will happen. 

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