Question on Dell 700m - RHEL 3 & Fedora 4

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Vu Pham wrote:
> >
> > Hard to say because you didn't really describe the error at
> > all.  There is/was a bug in FC4 that caused it to barf if you
> > had a DVD in the drive at boot time on intel chipset based
> > systems.  Its been fixed for about 2 months now though.
>
> Lonni, thanks for your reply. It may be that case. The book "RH FC4 Linux
> All In One", which has that DVD, was published in July and so the DVD may be
> older than that time period. When I installed with that the DVD, I did not
> take it out after installation.
> I am going to download FC4 and try again.

That won't help.  The FC4 ISO images are not updated (and will not be).
YOu just need to update to the most recent update kernel to fix this (or
remove the DVD from the drive when you boot into the OS).  Running 'yum
update' as root will do the trick.

> > Is that a centrino based wifi NIC?  If so, then no, its not
> > natively supported in any RH/FC release.  I think there are
> > beta drivers available somewhere though.
>
> That's bad for me. I have to use a PCMCIA wifi in this case.

Yea, it sux.  Thankfully, i don't have any centrino hardware.  I'll gladly
take yours off your hands though  :)

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