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chadrico

9th January 2005, 02:02 AM

I finally got my wireless working by using the Linuxant DriverLoader, I tried to use NDisWrapper to no avail. I am sure it is only a matter of time before they port NDisWrapper.(Hopefully by the time my 30 day free trial of the Linuxant Driver is up!). To buy the driver it is only $19. They finally support 64 bit drivers. My card is a Broadcom and I am running Fedora Core 3 64 bit version.

eric.proctor

14th January 2005, 09:52 PM

Hey, I have a similar notebook and am going to convert over the weekend, any advice on getting the drivers working from anyone? I am excited to get going. Any issues you had with that installation chadrico? And are you soloing or dual booting? Any info would be great.

chadrico

14th January 2005, 11:44 PM

Rinias

17th January 2005, 07:54 PM

Installation was easy with my notebook. FC3_64 uses the NV driver, and I installed the NVidia driver that I downloaded from the NVidia site. I had to use the 6111 driver , the 6229 driver has serious problems.

this, actually, is not true.
After going through hell trying to get my X server working yesterday, I found that ONLY the nvidia 6229 driver would work... Strange, huh? Not only that, but it worked poorly... So I decided to reinstall (it was a fresh install, minus the coupl'a hours I spent updating). Now, I reinstalled and tried to do things a little better. I didn't even try to install kernel-sources, cause it's near impossible and I made a mess of it yesterday. You would think that someone who has hand-rolled at least 50 kernels would be able to compile something that works, right?

Anyway, I simply installed the 6229, and I added the appropriate modelines for my WXGA screen into the xorg.conf as well as a couple of lines into -etc-modprobe.conf. I started up and: same old ugliness.

Who would of thought: I just needed to reboot!? I felt like it was being kinda windows-like, but I'm sure glad that it worked!!