Fedora 10 on an HP EVO D510

Michal Jaegermann michal at harddata.com
Wed Dec 31 19:08:37 UTC 2008


On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 12:37:21PM +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
> 
> On first boot, I tried to configure the network - I had copied fhe 
> firmware into place before rebooting after the install), but the 
> text-mode network install doesn't understand wireless.

Not entirely true but indeed a default way to do that is through
a NetworkManager (a.k.a. NetworkMangler) and that assumes a graphic
environment.  It is always possible to bring wireless up using
iwconfig and/or wpa_supplicant but this is relatively "low level".

> Note, I've not seen any documentation of how to do this for Fedora,

'man iwconfig' (with a section "SEE ALSO") and 'man wpa_supplicant'.

> I was quite surprised though to find it's eth0 in F10 (at least some of 
> the time), it used to be eth1

Something else already took eth0.  Do you have a wired interface
on this board?  Names and assignments can be changed but they are
written "automagically" in udev rules and kept for later.  Dig a bit
in files in /etc/udev/rules.d/ and you will find that out.

> These don't look good to me:
> [mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop.

Aha! Intel graphics, right?  Known bug.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469292
For now create a skeleton xorg.conf with a help of 'Xorg -configure'
and add an option "NoAccel" to it.  Details in the reference bug
report (and I was hit by it too).  A display slows down but it
works.

BTW - some desktop heads are stuck with an idea that forcing gdm on
the first console, for some illusory gains but a lot of extra
troubles, is a good thing to do.  As a result 'chvt 1' "does not
work" as you do not have getty running there; but it is not
difficult to find a text console with 'chvt 2' or a bit higher.

> I have to have this system running, Mrs S requires it.

It will run; even quite well if not perfect but try less emotional
approach and search bugzilla for troubles. I do have similar
requirements. :-)

> ... but I plan on trying CentOS5 first.

You are likely to bump into wireless issues.

   Michal




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