[geeks] Q: Fedora funky-ness...

[Lionel Peterson]

You know, I forgot about that option...

I will download it, since I have two similar laptops, and I have no real info on the laptop to save anyway...

I will miss 802.11b support though...

I wonder if those nice folks that make wrappers for Windows 802.11b drivers to enable their use under Linux can be convinced to port that to Solaris/x86? (see http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/ )

> 
> From: Francois Dion <fdion at atriumwindows.com>
> Date: 2004/02/17 Tue PM 03:29:29 GMT
> To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Q: Fedora funky-ness...
> 
> The Tecra 8000 is on the Sol 9 x86 list:
> http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/systems/views/laptop.html
> 
> Might want to download (for free) the latest Solaris for x86 (or Solaris 
> Express - Feb 04 should be out soon, with the N1 containers, very cool) 
> and try that. Works great on my laptops. You'll need UtahGLX for the 
> accelerated OpenGL support, but the rest is fairly straightforward on 
> the tecra.
> 
> Francois
> 
> Lionel Peterson wrote:
> 
> >Hello,
> >
> >Anyone out there (aside from Bill and I) running RH Fedora? I've got it
> >installed on a Tecra 8000 laptop (PII 266 MHz, 256 Meg RAM) and for some
> >reason every other power-up "freezes", requiring a power-cycle get the
> >system running...
> >
> >With RH 8 there were no problems on the same laptop/config...
> >
> >Thanks in advance,
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