No hope installing Fedora 11 on Acer Aspire 5739

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Thu Oct 1 21:19:26 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 20:22 +0200, Ambrogio wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> I'm trying to install and make operative Fedora 11 on my new laptop.
> 
> The model is Acer Aspire 5739g
> lspci says a lot of 82801I controller,
> nvidia corporation device 0652 rev a1
> intel corporation wireless wifi link 5100
> attansic technology corp device 1063 rev c0
> 
> I had no chance to install fedora with the CD, because anaconda can't
> find free space.
> Graphics interface didn't start, and with the text interface, I couldn't
> able to resize the NTFS.
> I made the resize by hands, and after that anaconda found a free space
> and installed a minimal fedora.
> I say minimal because I didn't choose software to install, and no X nor
> desktop managers was installed.
> 
> I can't use network card and wireless card.
> 
> I updated kernel to 2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i686.PAE but no chance too to use
> the network.
> I can assign an IP to eth0 but ping doesn't work.
> 
> someone can help me solving this. I think if I can configure and use the
> network, I will have a better chance to obtain a Fedora 11 working PC.
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I think life would be much simpler if you install again - letting the
software choose the installation items and not doing a minimal install. 

but to answer you question...get a terminal as root and type 'setup' and
configure networking.

Craig


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