[Leaplist] REVISITED: Fedora 9 on Gateway P-7811FX "Centrino 2" notebook

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Wed, 9/3/08, Richard F. Ostrow Jr. <rich at warfaresdl.com> wrote:
> That's a bit distressing...

I confirmed at my hotel that the 5100agn works with the iwl4965
driver and either of the 4965 or 5000 firmware modules.  It's
unencrypted though.

> It took me quite a while to figure out how to enable it
> (kernel starts with the RF_KILL switch enabled, but I
> managed to tie a ACPI keyboard function to toggle that).

I'd be interested in knowing what was involved.  This is
still something I have to tackle myself.

> I'll have to try a WPA2 network and see if it still works.

Yep, as I noted, it failed for both under the pre-installed
Windows Vista and under Linux with the iwl4965/fw5000 combo.
So I think there are greater issues with the chipset,
something I'm going to take up with Gateway for Vista at
least.

All-in-all, I'm extremely happy with the Linux support
out-of-the-box, let alone just "bringing over" my existing
disks with their existing install of Fedora 9.

-- Bryan

P.S.  Really hating Vista's "reliability."  I'm about to
"give up" on even Windows gaming with it.  E.g., Hellgate
London supposed has "special features" for DirectX 10 only.
The colors are totally dorked when I load either the base
or fully patched version, and have to go back to DX 9 mode.


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