On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:59:13 -0700, Roopnarine, Peter wrote: > Even though you might have an older eee PC model, I suggest that you > install Fedora 9 on it. Even Fedora 8 is lacking suitable drivers. Hmm .... I hadn't thought of the driver question. I do remember that getting F8 to run on it was one helluva lot of work ... > I > recently used liveusb creator to download and install Fedora 9-KDE on an > eee PC 4G. The live boot worked fine and the machine networked instantly > with a DHCP connection via LAN cable. I installed from the live desktop, > using the default partition scheme, and everything was fine upon reboot. I'm not sure I even made a liveCD for F9; I had enough trouble getting usable install media burned. But I'm trying an upgrade now, and if that fails, I'll try a fresh install next. The reason I tried F7 was that I have an older PC, which had run both F7 and F8 fine, and which seemed to have taken to F9 as well, till it suddenly seemed to die. I thought my hard drive was kaputt. But then a young friend who speaks hardware, and works on computers for a living, brought his whole toolkit over. At his behest, I ran DBAN, then installed F7; it took at once, several weeks ago, and still seems fine. > I then instrall kmod-madwifi package, and after another reboot, wireless > was up and running. I travel a lot, and I have to say that my experience > with the capabilities and convenience of the eee PC are very different > from yours. I am able to do a lot of work remotely, but I even have the > Gimp installed on the thing. Is kmod-madwifi something I can run under Gnome, or do I need a different package? I don't doubt it's a good machine; but I'll give long odds your fingers are smaller and more agile, and your eyes sharper, than mine. I can't manage a touchpad, if that's the name for such things, on a big laptop, let alone this one. It'll do me for waiting in doctors' offices, etc. -- and be small enough to take to such places. But even with a mouse, I can't keep at it physically for more than an hour or so. -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Fedora 7, 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6; Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2, Epiphany 2, Opera 9, Firefox 2 & 3 Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
