Re: Newbie: RH9 (Fedora) laptop PCMCIA networking "removed"

From: Clive Long,UK (clive_long_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/06/04 

Date: 6 Feb 2004 04:12:29 -0800

>
> All,
>
> As I do not know how to fix this problem, although I feel it could
> be corrected with a config change, I decided to re-install Fedora /
> RedHat.
>
> Two new problems.
>
> First attempt at re-install - I think the Anaconda installer was
> only trying to install UPDATED packages - so in fact nothing new was
> installed - and the NIC problem remained.
>
> Second (and subsequent) re-install attempts, the install is aborted
> early on and a "media check" indicates the install CD-Rom is corrupt

Problem (sort of) fixed

1. Re-burned Disk1 ISO image to CD-R. This disk read with no media
errors

2. Complete re-install of Fedora to the Linux ext3 partitions.

3. The install has detected both the wireless NIC (eth0) and the
Xircom "wired" NIC. The Xircom has some initialisation - and I am
using the NetGear wireless NIC now - to be honest I thought the
problems with the NICs would be the other way round. To be subject of
a different search / posting on news group.

Problems

Although I thought I was very careful about the placement of the boot
loader, on first boot I got "LI" then a freeze.

I fixed by booting from the Win XP install disk, going to recovery
console and rebuilding the MBR (master boot record). I always thought
that once in WinXP I could run BootMAgic to create a "boot option" to
the Linux / Fedora partition. This works in that the boot goes "Via"
GRUB boot loader. I need to configure GRUB so that it automatically
starts Linux rahter than giving me anothe roption to start WinXp. So
OS selection will be done initially using BootMagic.

Next job - set up print server and fix the Xircom "wired" NIC

Clive

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