Re: FC5 32 bit or 64 bit
- From: "D. Hugh Redelmeier" <hugh@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 15:49:11 -0400 (EDT)
| From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx>
[It is best to trim quotes: remove things that don't relate to your
response.]
| On Sunday 23 April 2006 14:17, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
| >There has been some recent success in creating a native Linux driver
| >for Broadcom 802.11g controllers.
| > http://bcm43xx.berlios.de
|
| This one is interesting as I'm currently running the windows drivers
| under ndiswrapper, and its working fine. But I would like to be able
| to junk the ndiswrapper thing if I could.
On this list, there were some more useful comments about this driver.
Here's what appears to be the most useful message in that thread:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-April/msg05369.html
Apparently it is included in FC5 but you need to get bcm43xx-fwcutter
from livna and use it to get a copy of the firmware. I infer that the
firmware is not open source so Fedora does not include it in the
distribution.
I see you were part of that thread, so this is old news to you.
If you have only 4 days, this is probably not a good use of your time.
| ... here is my conundrum: When I try to install the x86-64
| from the dvd on an HP lappy with an AMD64 Turion in it, the
| installation takes a dump right after formatting the partitions because
| it cannot find setup-2.5.49 on the dvd. I tried twice, with two
| diferent dvd, on a +R and one a -R. Now I just looked at the dvd, and
| I was able to unpack and view the contents of this file with mc with no
| problems.
|
| So the $32k question is what happened? Do I need to add more options to
| the boot line in order for it to work? I'm currently booting the x86
| install using "irqpoll noapic nopapci pci=assign-busses lapic".
Sounds bad. What you have looks to be a symptom, not the disease. So
what's the disease??? Perhaps even too many kernel flags -- they are
not all harmless.
After a certain point in the install, several of the consoles are
going in the background and may have useful info for debugging. Have
a look (CNTRL-ALT-F1, CNTRL-ALT-F2, etc).
Very many laptops are tricky. Maybe all of them. It is best to find
a community (mailing list, for example) of others inflicted with the
same family of laptops. That way you can share knowledge painfully
gained. I, for example, have an HP Pavilion zv5000z. I find the
mailing list
http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 and
wiki http://prinsig.se/weekee useful. This family may or may not be
include your particular laptop.
| Or is there a way to convert an x86 install to an x86-64 install on the
| fly?
No, there is no reasonable way.
| I'd hate to have to redo all the customization I've put into this
| at this late date when I have only about 4 days to do it in.
Don't do it! You probably have way better things to do with the
remaining 4 days.
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