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Installing Fedora 2 on Dell M60

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General Hardware Specifications of [Laptop]:

Hardware Components	Status Under Linux	Notes
80536, Pentium M Dothan, 2GHZ	Works	No special procedure required during installation.
1680x1050 SXGA Display	Works	Used NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run
Video NV36GL, 128MB	Works	Used NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run
1 GB Memory: DUAL IN-LINE MEMORY MODULE, 512, 333, 64X64, 8K, 200, 512	Works	No special procedure required during installation
80GB, 9.5MM, 5.4K, FUJITSU, Z40P	Works	No special procedure required during installation: NTFS installed
FLOPPY DRIVE, 1.44M	Works	No special procedure required during installation
Broadcom 5700	Works	No special procedure - used Tg3 driver default
D480 CONEXANT ECLIPSE MODEM	Doesn't Work	Unlikely to work- never tried
24X Max Variable CD-ROM Drive	Works	No special procedure required during installation
INTEL2200 Wireless Networking (Wi-Fi Certified)	Works	Major effort to load and configure ipw2200
70 W BATTERY, PRIMARY, 11.1V, 9C, LITHIUM, SANYO	Works	No special procedure required during installation
Intel Sound Card	Works	No special procedure required used sound tool to detect

This laptop is operating under Kernel version [Kernel version number which you are using]

Basic Installation of Fedora:

Partitioned 80GB drive to allow small 7GB patition for dual boot. Left unformatted and Fedora 2 installed with no problem. Fedora 3 did not work with the NVIDIA card- known problem- probably resolved by now. But also heard that cannot backup partition with Ghost in Fedora 3, so happy to stick with Fedora 2 (build 521).

Setting up additional features for [Linux Distribution]

Most difficult was to get wireless to work. Used sourceforge ipw2200 drivers, but had to work on dealing with encryption problems from by SBC master at home. Eventually helped by Linux sites at Clemson and help from Dell and various others. This was not easy and took 10 days. Best advice to turn off encrytion and deal with that after you make a connection. Used iwconfig, and iwlist wlan0 scanning, dmesg and other tools a lot. Was very difficult to get card to be identified consistently at start-up.

Installation of GLUT libraries for C++ program development using NVIDIA card in flight simulation. I seemed to install two versions of GLUT and then the NVIDIA to get it to run.

Unresolved issues

Power management not ideal but seems standard.

Configuration Files

/etc/fstab for NTFS; /etc/modules.conf; /etc/modprobe.con and /etc/rc.conf (adding in modprobe ipw2200);

Contact Information (Optional)

yesavageatstanforddotedu

Links:

Dell workstations and laptops have replaced the Silicon Graphics machines to run our flight simulator. Simulations run 10-50x faster at 30% of the price.

http://www.stanford.edu/people/yesavage/AIR.html

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