FC5 on a Dell Inspiron 6400 - wireless help
A little about my system:
Dell Inspiron 6400 Dual Core 1.66GHz 1GB DDR 533MHz shared channel SDRAM ATI Radeon x1300 128MB WSXGA+ LCD screen (1680x1050 native resolution) 60GB 7200rpm SATA Hard Drive (20GB part for linux) Intel® PRO 3945 and Dell 350 Bluetooth wireless cards Its a brand spankin new laptop with a brand spankin new install of Fedora Core 5. My purpose for this thread is getting my wifi to work, but I'll volunteer this - right out of the box, the install is up and running with these issues I need to fix: WIFI I've read a lot. Tons of info out there on the intel 2200, but not so much on my intel 3945. FC5 appears not to know I have a wifi card. The only sign of life I see comes from lspci: Quote:
I'm tempted to dream up a 3945 version of these steps: http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/478 but I haven't quite made that leap and I'd have no clue what versions of rpms to choose. Say, this yum thing is new to me. Too good to be true? Don't suppose I could "yum make_wifi_go". :-) Someone, anyone, please help me out with the wifi. Graphics: I don't know what resolution is running now, but it isn't widescreen. The screen is squished (stretched to fit widescreen). I tried editing my xorg.conf file to have the right resolution, but it seems to have done nothing. Perhaps KDE is messing it up because right-click on desktop -> configure desktop -> display shows only 4:3 resolutions and no widescreen resolutions to choose from. 2D and 3D performance is sluggish. I can watch windows redraw when I move them around. GL screensavers are real slow. Here's a clue from lspci: Quote:
Sound Don't know what kind of sound chip I have, but I've got something (Win XP plays sounds). FC5 sound doesn't work at all. I've tried muting and unmuting stuff, but not much else. lspci says: Quote:
Mouse (touchpad Here's my only success at tweaking things so far. I used this guy's procedure to turn off that touch-to-click "feature" that drives me batty: http://copland.udel.edu/~doke/dell_d810/ |
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i just bought a 6400 just like yours, being shipped today, the 18th... i forgot after i bought it that i was going to install linux....these notebooks have some fairly new hardware, and probably be awhile before linux conforms is my quess.
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