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I missed out some of the stuff in that guide, whilst I was trying to fix what I borked with using freshrpms and livna at the same time.

 

 

I only use livna for kernel modules, it is always disabled in the repo file, and manually enabled by passing --enablerepo=livna as and when it's needed.

 

As for the speed, to be honest, I don't find it to be that much faster than FC6, there is an improvement, but I haven't seen a significant difference.

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I use the native Lotus Notes client, and it's damn fast in Fedora 7 compared to anything I've used previously, and I can't figure out why. But hey, I'm not complaining :)

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Never used fedora for any length of time before, so, this is literally, first impressions of fedora.

 

Got a new hdd for my laptop today, so I figured it was the perfect place to give fedora a shot. ISO SHA1SUMs matched, and the DVD was checked and was fine upon the installer start. Good to go.

 

Installation

Installer is fine, it does what it needs to, without much fuss. I had 4 complaints, but decided not to bother mentioning them, because the rest of fedora... sucked. Excepting partitioning, I took default options.

 

Package sizes are... amazingly large. Evolution is 14mb on Arch, 38mb on Fedora. I can't see how that's explained.

 

First boot

Didnt boot. Seems it doesnt want to boot when I have my firewire CD drive plugged in. After removing that, it booted fine. I can forgive that.

 

Second boot

Dissappointed :( I was hoping fedora would be great. Absolutely miserable wireless support. And I mean absolutely miserable. No NetworkManager or equivalent, and no wpa support from GUI. That's unforgivable. NO desktop aimed distro has ANY defence for not including half decent wireless support out of the box now. It detected my card fine, it's an old 802.11b intel, and the pathetic network configuration tool it has recognised it as a wireless card.

 

Anyway, I figured i'd try and install Networkmanager or something else. Clicked software install, and it said it wanted an internet connection, then closed. -- I just downloaded a 2.8gb dvd iso, surely it can install from that without internet?

 

So, I plugged in the ethernet cable. Went to the network configuration dialog and enabled my ethernet connection. No such luck. SELinux popped up saying "SELinux AVC denial" -- it was denying dhclient from writing /etc/resolv.conf, thus no DNS, thus no useful network for me.

 

I read the SELinux alert. It said, that a particular command would fix the access for resolv.conf. Tried to run it as root, no such command.

 

No network, really, really not impressed, not even on ethernet. I'm still amazed that they don't package NetworkManager out of the box... like every other sane desktop distro. Mandriva, SuSE and Ubuntu all do.

 

Anyway, i'm willing to keep trying. in the meantime, does anyone know how to.... connect to a network?

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ok, found networkmanager is installed, was in services, so i've enabled it. God knows why it wasnt enabled by default.

 

Set SELinux to permissive, rebooted, and i've got internet on both cable and wireless. Wireless still won't connect to my normal home WPA network, but it does work on my backup WEP network. Says it's outta range for the wpa one, which is utter nonsense.

 

So got network going now.

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I found NetworkManager was installed on my system by default, just not enabled. After I enabled it, the nm-applet started from the gnome environment OK, and seemed to work for me.

 

I have a ipw3945 wireless card, of which I seem to have something working, as an ifcfg-wlan0 was created, but haven't tested it further to see if it's actually working or not, since I'm nowhere near an access point to test connectivity.

 

With Fedora, once the DVD is installed, yum pulls all packages from the internet. Seems it doesn't refer to the DVD again after installation. I've disabled selinux.

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heh. im not having much luck. Get a complete kernel panic, keyboard leds flashing, upon trying to resume from suspend or hibernate. Don't know what they did to 2.6.21, a stock 2.6.21 works fine.

 

Yum's pretty good though!

 

James

 

Check this page out:

 

http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/

 

FC6 was awesome at suspend, when some changes to pm-utils and hal-info it left suspend working on some at not others, but he is working on making it better and has some trouble shooting steps.

 

Thanks,

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Check this page out:

 

http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/

 

FC6 was awesome at suspend, when some changes to pm-utils and hal-info it left suspend working on some at not others, but he is working on making it better and has some trouble shooting steps.

 

Thanks,

 

yeah, saw that.

 

I've copied across my custom kernel and sleep script, and sleep is working again, so I'll futz with the fedora stuff, see what 's wrong and send it in. Fedora's working great now that i've got sleep and everything else working.

 

James

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Toshiba Tecra A8 (PTA-83E). Intel everything.

 

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)
03:0b.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller
03:0b.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
03:0b.3 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller

 

lspci on the hardware.

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