another fedora release...

[Jarod Wilson]

On Jun 9, 2009, at 1:29 PM, John Abreau wrote:

> I'm planning to load it onto my netbook tonight, if I get out of the
> office early enough. I just loaded the preview release at the  
> Installfest
> a bit over a week ago, and I haven't done much with the thing yet.
>
> Someone at the Installfest had asked me whether the Acer's wireless
> was working.  Wireless didn't work out of the box when I frst  
> installed
> the preview release, but after I installed the package "broadcom-wl"
> and rebooted, wireless worked fine.


Which netbook? My own Acer netbook (Aspire One, 8.9" screen) came with  
an Atheros wifi chip, which does work out of the box.

Note that broadcom-wl is the partially-closed-source driver direct  
from Broadcom for their most recent (particularly n-capable) chips,  
and is found in the RPM Fusion repo, not the Fedora repo.



> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Jerry Feldman<gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> I plan to do a full install this weekend, and preserving my  
>> existing Fedora
>> 10.  Additionally, instead of the usual method of downloading,  
>> burning a
>> DVD, I will either do a network install like I did with Fedora 10  
>> (eg.
>> placing the isolinux and corresponding initrd into my /boot  
>> directory), or
>> an HD install directly from the iso. Probably install directly from  
>> the iso
>> since I'll want to have F11 for the next installfest.
>>
>> On 06/09/2009 09:43 AM, Stephen Adler wrote:
>>>
>>> It looks like fedora 11 is out, but not quite announced yet....  
>>> I'd love
>>> to read posts of those brave enough to upgrade their systems....



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