I gave up on RH9 on a TE2300. Also had problems with Mandrake 9.1. However, I now have Mandrake 9.2rc2 pretty much installed on it. This is what I did:

When the Mandrake screen appears, press F1.

Type: linux noauto.

When the mouse selection appears, choose standard mouse. I found that even if you use an external scroll wheel mouse, chosing that will result in very erratic mouse behaviour.

Proceed past the partitioning process, as appropriate.

When you get to the configuration details you will see it says that the Graphical Interface, Sound and the Network are not configured.

For the Graphical Interface:
Generic 1024x768 70Hz|VESA|1024x768|24 bit|no test|use Xfree at startup

For the Network Interface:
Autodetect|LAN|e100 Intel Pro 100|Autoprobe|AutoIP|no Zeroconf host name|no proxy.

For the Bootloader:
Make what you prefer the default.

This process results in a working network card, graphical display, external mouse. If the mouse is disconnected, then the built in AccuPoint device will operate.

Sound:
It says none detected.
This is a not very satisfatory work around, after installation:
Run Configuration|Hardware|HardDrake. Select the sound card. Click "Run config tool". From "any driver", pick i810 audio. Close HardDrake. Sound should now work. However, the setting is not remembered after shut down. If you try to use "Configure Module" then HardDrake freezes.

I'm pretty new to Linux, so how do I get the sound settings to stick? And is USB meant to work so that plugging in a device will show it is connected?

Bob Long

away from computer

Sorry its been a while guys and gals,

i cant remember who asked about installing mandrake

but to get mine to work flawlessly i just used linux no auto (maybe another option that it gives you if you select options on the boot loader, whatever references to autoprobing for usb etc)

i cant wait until redhat releases another version with kernel 2.6 included as that will solve some issues for us

hey guys ...

can i join the club ? i'm also trying to install fedora core 1 on a tosh TE2300. so i must be number 4 in the world. i already have XP, and used partition magic to chop up my hard drive. however the boot CD also hangs during the installation start up. has anyone got further than this yet ???
has anyone else noticed that these laptops just aren't the most stable things anyway?

Ross,

try :linux noauto, nousb

Sorry haven't tried fedora & mandrake 10 yet but with my te2300 someone helped me install gentoo and working fine. We've installed version 2004.0 kernel 2.4.2 but I'm thinking of installing it myself with the 2004.1.

I'll probably try fedora and mandrake 10 again when I got time to install the Gentoo. Installing might take you ages but it sure does work.

yup,

linux noauto, nousb - this got me going with Fedora ... all the way through the first CD. inserted the second ... disc started spinning, but nobody was home. the system hanged completely after inserting CD2. for irrelevance it claimed to be 'installing gnome panel x.x.x.x'.

a reboot took me straight into XP, even tho i thought i'd already configured the bootloader during anaconda!

that was this morning, however overnight i happened to have downloaded Mandrake 10. Some call it the linux, and some might say it's not so focused on being highly technical regarding kernel builds etc etc ... first off i think this opinion is dated, second let me tell you this - IT WORKS A TREAT ON A TE2300 !! KDE looks super slick (been a while since i've seen it), openoffice, mozilla, terminals .. seemingly hundreds of top utils/games/packages installed right away. it's even a 2.6 kernel.

now, here's the catch - anyone wanna tell me how i get a Logitech optical USB (not wireless) wheel mouse, a Netgear MA401 wireless laptop card, an iomega USB floppy+7-in-1card reader .. and a usb2 external ide hdd working on mandrake ?

time for some googlin' !

Ross,


Didn't you connect all these when you were stting up mandrake? It should have detected all of this during the process. With Gentoo I just attached my optical usb mouse and it detect it straight away.

Just a question about your drake 10, Did the installation managed to detect the modem on the te2300?

by the way what is your real location? It says sing/aust?

>Didn't you connect all these when you were stting up mandrake? It should have detected all of this during the process. With >Gentoo I just attached my optical usb mouse and it detect it straight away.

>Just a question about your drake 10, Did the installation managed to detect the modem on the te2300?

>by the way what is your real location? It says sing/aust?


hey,

international man of mystery here
in answer to your last question, i´m based in singapore at the moment - but the best city in the world (melbourne) is where i call home! i return about every 6-7 weeks.

about the third time i boot into mandrake, everything froze up. strange, although running through the install once again picked up the damaged install, and repaired it. this time even including my usb mouse, which works perfectly. now i have Wireless Netgear MA401 working perfectly too - something like this:

1) Install PCMCIA services.. Go into /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia and set "off" to "on".
2) Go to /etc/lilo.conf and replace any "acpi=ht" with "acpi=on"
3) go into /etc/pcmcia/wlan-ng.conf, and change the bindings for MA401 and MA401RA from prism2_cs to orinoco_cs


hmm ... modem. something i rarely have to use, only if i´m in a hotel in the a*se end of nowhere with nothing but a phoneline. but this does happen from time to time! Looking in HardDrake - indeed it does NOT seem to be there - but as said low priority, so this´ll go on the bottom of the to-do list ....

for all of you attempting with RH9 or Fedora - it´s nasty, which is not what you´d expect, but there you go. good luck. in the meantime, mandrake will likely aleviate some frustration and give you something to play with until you get RH working

ironically, this very webpage doesn´t work too well in mozilla ... hmmm ....