Comments below. On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 10:55 -0800, Paul Rennix wrote: > I just set up FC3t3 on a Toshiba p35 s609 - it went well! > > I set it up as a dual boot with the oem WinXP Home SP2 and used knoppix to > resize the partition and then installed FC3. NO disk geometry problems!! I > didn't use any of the workarounds that were necessary with fc2, and the > install was flawless. Glad to hear it. Mine install went OK that way as well. > Now I only have a couple minor problems to work through. One, is the > convoluted process that I am finding to install drivers for artheros wifi - > which I have gone through twice now without success. I know its a longshot, > but has anyone had success with these drivers on fc3? Not those, but the Broadcom drivers on a ZD7000. We all use the ndiswrapper, which is simple and works well. See zd7000forums.com under Linux. There is a HOWTO there that explains it pretty well. > Also, the install failed to recognize the touchpad which windows reports to > be an "alps pointing device" which is a touchpad and 2 buttons (no "stick.") > It is doing well with a wireless usb mouse, though. Can't help you here. The Linux synaptics touchpad driver works exellent, better than the Windows version. Did we expect any less ? > I figured I would have some problems along these lines on such a new device > (released in July I believe). More than anything I am SO GLAD that the disk > geometry bug seems to have been fixed. Good work! I found it very neat to be able to resize the ntfs partition and thus avoid having to re install XP. > If anyone has any advice on the atheros/madwifi problem or the touchpad I > would love to hear from you. Try ndiswrapper. A bunch of us are using it problem free on the ZD7000s. Our wireless light even lights up. > -Paul Rennix > > > > > -- Kim Lux (Mr.) Diesel Research Inc