dual install results, artheros drivers, touchpad on a toshiba satellite p35 s609

Paul Nasrat pnasrat at redhat.com
Wed Nov 3 18:14:33 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 10:55 -0800, Paul Rennix wrote:
> I just set up FC3t3 on a Toshiba p35 s609 - it went well!
> 
> I set it up as a dual boot with the oem WinXP Home SP2 and used knoppix to
> resize the partition and then installed FC3.  NO disk geometry problems!! I
> didn't use any of the workarounds that were necessary with fc2, and the
> install was flawless.
> 
> Now I only have a couple minor problems to work through.  One, is the
> convoluted process that I am finding to install drivers for artheros wifi -
> which I have gone through twice now without success.  I know its a longshot,
> but has anyone had success with these drivers on fc3?
> 
> Also, the install failed to recognize the touchpad which windows reports to
> be an "alps pointing device" which is a touchpad and 2 buttons (no "stick.")
> It is doing well with a wireless usb mouse, though.

ALPS requires kernel patches for support, when they go upstream we'll
get the support.

Paul





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