I'm about to try and install Fedora on an older laptop that only has a floppy drive and USB. I have a USB DVD drive that I would like to use to install the Fedora CD's. Does anyone know if this is possible? I'm going to try the standard bootdisk.img on Fedora Core 1 CD1 and hope that it allows the DVD drive via USB to be used for installation. ;)
Thanks,
Mark
I have searched the archives and cant seem to find anything pertaining to this card. Anyone had luck getting it to work ?
When i use cardctl ident it tells me its a Realtek 8139 ?? Any clues on how to get this working ? I am using a IBM T30.
Zate
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 14:00, Zate wrote:
I have searched the archives and cant seem to find anything pertaining to this card. Anyone had luck getting it to work ?
When i use cardctl ident it tells me its a Realtek 8139 ?? Any clues on how to get this working ? I am using a IBM T30.
You won't get that card working with standard Fedora Core, as there is currently not an open source driver. I understand there may be binary drivers available from Realtek, but I don't know how well or if they work. The other alternative is to contact Linksys and trade it for a version 3 card, which uses the Prism-II chipset and works fine in Linux.
--Jeremy
You won't get that card working with standard Fedora Core, as there is currently not an open source driver. I understand there may be binary drivers available from Realtek, but I don't know how well or if they work. The other alternative is to contact Linksys and trade it for a version 3 card, which uses the Prism-II chipset and works fine in Linux.
--Jeremy
Thanks Jeremy. I contacted Linksys support and they claim they dont support linux at all, and wont for this card - period. Which is obviously wrong, the Ver3 card is supported, but I guess it means my Ver4 cardis useless.
Anyone know of any wireless cards that are 100% supported, and will continue to be supported ?
I would love to know too. Is there any list of known supported wireless cards for the Fedora kernel?
Zate wrote:
You won't get that card working with standard Fedora Core, as there is currently not an open source driver. I understand there may be binary drivers available from Realtek, but I don't know how well or if they work. The other alternative is to contact Linksys and trade it for a version 3 card, which uses the Prism-II chipset and works fine in Linux.
--Jeremy
Thanks Jeremy. I contacted Linksys support and they claim they dont support linux at all, and wont for this card - period. Which is obviously wrong, the Ver3 card is supported, but I guess it means my Ver4 cardis useless.
Anyone know of any wireless cards that are 100% supported, and will continue to be supported ?
Group:
--- Ryan Nix rnix@prometheon.net wrote:
I would love to know too. Is there any list of known supported wireless cards for the Fedora kernel?
I don't know of a list as such, but this site has a lot of information about wireless cards, and was big help when I did the wireless thing last week:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html
I dodged the bullet on the Linksys v3/4 issue - I managed to find an old v3 card at the back of the shelf in a discount store.
Mike Smith
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Anyone know of any wireless cards that are 100% supported, and will continue to be supported ?
http://www.dabs.com/uk/channels/hardware/networking/products.htm?catid=127 have their own brand which says linux supported for £19.50 licks which didn't seem too shabby.
http://www.dabs.com/uk/channels/hardware/networking/products.htm?catid=127 have their own brand which says linux supported for £19.50 licks which didn't seem too shabby.
Thats pretty good. I'll shop around for one here locally, see what I can turn up. thanks for the help.
Zate.
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 14:14, Zate wrote:
You won't get that card working with standard Fedora Core, as there is currently not an open source driver. I understand there may be binary drivers available from Realtek, but I don't know how well or if they work. The other alternative is to contact Linksys and trade it for a version 3 card, which uses the Prism-II chipset and works fine in Linux.
--Jeremy
Thanks Jeremy. I contacted Linksys support and they claim they dont support linux at all, and wont for this card - period. Which is obviously wrong, the Ver3 card is supported, but I guess it means my Ver4 cardis useless.
When I bought mine there was a piece of paper in the box that said it doesn't work on NT and several otehr devices, so I could get a new one. Check your box.
That said, go to www.linuxquestions.org and search for it, there are many threads there (I'm known as ucntcme there, you can search for that too)
Anyone know of any wireless cards that are 100% supported, and will continue to be supported ?
Lucent Orinoco Gold, can't seem to go wrong with them. So far they stick with a single chipset (exercise for the user: Why?. :^) )
Cheers, Bill
----- Original Message ----- From: Mark G. Spencer To: fedora-test-list@redhat.com Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 12:44 PM Subject: Floppy boot install of Fedora for CD install via USB Sony DVD DRX-500ULX?
I'm about to try and install Fedora on an older laptop that only has a floppy drive and USB. I have a USB DVD drive that I would like to use to install the Fedora CD's. Does anyone know if this is possible? I'm going to try the standard bootdisk.img on Fedora Core 1 CD1 and hope that it allows the DVD drive via USB to be used for installation. ;)
Thanks,
Mark
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