FC4 T2 and Dell M70

[Jamie Bohr]

Has any one had luck installing Fedora (3 or 4) on a Dell M70 laptop? I just 
got one and wiped out Windows first thing. I was quite disappointed to learn 
sound and wireless were not supported in FC4. The audio is AC97 and the 
wireless is a Intel PRO/Wireless 2915 a/b/g. I have searched the Internet 
and found where other users were able to get Suse or Ubuntu installled will 
little trouble. I am a Fedora fan though. I was surprised to find no sound 
and no wireless after installing FC 4 T2.

I am still searching the Internet to get the sound working. The wireless is 
very weird though. The system does not see the built in wireless card at 
all. When I insert my old Xircom wireless card the builtin Intel 
(Pro/Wireless 2915) shows up - what's up with that? My Xircom is not even 
listed. I down loaded the drivers from Intel and installed as indicated, 
still not luck.

My quesion is this, why does the builtin wireless card not show up until I 
put in my old Xircom card? Also why does the Xircom not work? I tired the 
Suse live CD, no sound but the wireless card is seen. I was told if I 
installed the full workstation version of Suse the sound would work as well. 
I would rather stick with Fedora if I can get it to work. I realize FC4 is 
still in testing so if I need to file a bug report I will.

I got all the updates with up2date before I posted this message.

Thank you,
Jamie Bohr
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