I've installed Fedora Core 3 (Heidelberg) on my Averatec 6200 Laptop.
One of the first things I noticed was that my wifi card wasn't working, so I lspci and all that, see it's listed and then find out later about ndiswrapper.

Installed the kernel source, installed ndiswrapper, wireless works after configuring everything.

Now, my new problem is that while booting Fedora goes through the first stages in console loading storage network and audio, but after loading storage it says loadndiswrapperset something something
I want it to stay how it was, which was just say loading storage network audio and be complete, without all the extra mumbo jumbo loadndiswrapperblah blah

I'm not familiar to SysV boot style, since I'm a slackware user (uses BSD style init). I looked through /etc/rc.d/ and finally decided to start looking at rc.sysinit and haven't found anything that would relate to this problem.

Now how in the world can I get this to how it was?
Thanks for any help!

hm, tried editing my /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit and took out the echo modules part but that didn't do anything.
I'm sure this is probably something simple, I just have to find it!
Just kind of a nuisance..
well yeah, bump.

Hey i notice you have a 6200... i have tried desperately to get knoppix live 3.7 and mepis to work on it.... both end up having the same problem.. DISPLAY BLANKS OUT when X loads

noticing you can actually use your laptop means that you got yours to work... can you help? should i install FC.. i'll be happy to if i know it will work.. thanks

Hey dude,

You can upgrade to the latest version of ndiswrapper if you like which has moved much of the functionality to the ndisdriver, therefore removing the additional output message at boot.
Regards
Chris

Thats v1.0 RC3 by the way

I did it differently. I just made an ndiswrapper script that starts up before wlan0 and modprobes ndiswrapper and goes ahead and configures a lot of my wireless settings at the same time, getting rid of the 'jumbledness' and all.
thanks though, I may have to look at the newest bigger and better

EDIT: and for knoppix. What did it for me was that I had to set my fb and resolution before booting it, you can't just press enter and go. I don't remember the string exactly but you can find out by looking at the options, it's all just resolution stuff. You can use 1280x800 safely

why does X -configure say it can not find my mouse? we have the same laptop... has yours done that? i have a logitech plugged into the top right usb port... but i've moved it all around and it still says the same

if i run X -config xorg.conf.new i get into the basic X windows gui
but there's nothing.. the background is black and i have the standard "X" for a cursor...... and nothing ever happens
just a black screen with the X cursor (maybe this is a test mode for the configuration file?) but regardless the problem is when i try to CTRL-ALT F1-2-3-so on so forth... it kills my display completely
it goes blank and i cant get back so i have to reboot....

btw this is on Fedora Core 3 (i installed it)

For future reference I would recommend you stay away from RC3 and install the nightly tarbell. RC3 gave me a lot of errors and the nightly tarbell worked fine.

Wow, you got a version of Fedora working on your Averatec? i have the same model and am having serious problems with the graphics accelrator. I'm now at the point of wondering if is actually possible to get any distro of linux to work on this thing. Was your install fairly smooth?

If you are talking about the nvidia driver its a known issue and well documented. Since I did it this morning the steps after modifying the xorg.conf file are (as root)
telinit 3
sh NVIDIA etc...
cp -a /dev/nvidia* /etc/udev/devices
chown root.root /etc/udev/devices/nvidia*
modprobe nvidia
reboot

Still having probs then just google

How do I actually get to a point where I can make those modifications? Every time I try to boot from any linux distro I just get a black screen with a blinking cursor. I don't know what to do from here to edit anything or mess around with stuff.

Like I said, google is your friend. But here's one for free!

http://www.fedorafaq.org/custom_nvidia.html

The install was extremely smooth from a FC3 install. The display drivers all worked fine from default (no 3d ac, but didn't expect that right off the bat )
What are you having troubles with, X?

I'm having problems with a few things. Untill today I hadn't tried FC3, but I had tried FC1, FC2, Knoppix live, unbuntu live, and the regular ubuntu install. And I had the same result with all of them: I would try to boot and I wouldn't even get to a intro screen, I would just hear my CD drive beep over and over and get a blank screen w/ a blinking underscore.

I just tried to install FC3 today. At first it recognized the CD and booted from it, I couldn't get the graphical install to work so I tried the text install, that probably would have gone fine, except that I really wasn't farmilliar with partitioning my harddrive through the text install, all the other times I had installed fedora I had done it graphically. So I thought I would try the graphical install once more before trying to figure out how to partition in the text install. This was a mistake. My computer then decided it didn't want to boot from the CD at all. Now I'm back where I started, when I boot from the FC3 CD, I just get an annoying beeping sound from my disc drive (which means that it's not doing anything) and that same blinking underscore.

I have tried everything my limited knowledge will allow and I would appreciate ANY help.

Hm, I'm not really sure on how to go about that. I could get you through a text based install, but that wouldn't help you get into X later.

The most effective idea I have at the moment is to create your own thread. Most users reading this are interested in ndiswrapper already, since that's that title. They have no idea they're stumbling onto a FC3 installation issue. I would go to Distributions -> Fedora -> Fedora - Installation and then create a new thread stating what you just posted here.

Thanks....will do.