Fedora Core 4 on Inspiron 9300

Just out of curiosity, do you  have any firewalls running?  If so disable them and try again.  If that works, then maybe an update to the IP Table or setting up a firewall rule is in order. 

Good luck!

Love google :smileyvery-happy:

I do want to say that this: "I noticed an instance where someone reported a problem where the network interface would only work IF the optical mouse was being moved about on the screen."

is crazy.  I read that to.

So are you liking FC4 so far...I like what I have read, it just seems there a lot fo people having a lot of little issues that build up.

I'm liking it so far.  I just set up yum and did an update; I forget how many there were but it was LOTS.  I also just set up the printer.  Now I'm going to take a stab at the CD/DVD/Audio functions.  Like I said in my first post I'm new to Linux so I'm taking it slow.  I'm guessing that part of the attraction with Linux is learning as you go along and fixing all the little problems that come up.

How often should I run yum update?  Once a weekor so?

Can you provide a link to the audio solutions please? I'm thinking of installing Fedora 4 as well, but I've had some bad experiences with linux installation on the Toshiba Satellite 2410 which I used to have. After reading through some of the other forums it seems that there can be problems getting the vid card to load up X on the 9300. The Toshiba had a 16Mb geforce 440, and I now have a 256Mb Geforce Go 6800. Thankfully for the toshiba there was a site that went through all the exact issue resolution conflicts  for the system (such as strange typing behaviour, black bar on one side of the screen, no video acceleration, etc). Unfortunately for the 9300 all I can find is installation for Kubundu, which I don't want.

I've also read that there can be some problems on the battery status. Have you had that issue? Apparently it always warns that battery level is at 0% even with the AC connected. I used to have a similar problem on my toshiba which was the only issue I never resolved. It was just annoying when the battery reaches 25% because every minute it would send a broadcast on my terminal screwing up any commands I typed.

There's another thing that's bugging me - apparently the DVD drive does not run fast and you have to change the libdata.h to say #define ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI, and then the kernel has to be recompiled. How do i do that? Rebuilding a kernel sounds serious to me!

Finally, someone had a problem where the processor speed remains at 800Mhz when the AC is on. What's the deal with that? Why are there so many performance issues? Man .. linux is so much more trouble than it should be.

Message Edited by Adonisius on 07-06-2005 10:41 PM

"Man .. linux is so much more trouble than it should be."

Welcome to the wonderful world of Linux, Linux is all about hardware, so when you transfer systems over from a windows environment (software oriented), there all kinds of issues.  You may be better fit trying to install Red Hat or Mandrake, both are much more user friendly (especially red hat) than fedora will be.  Also with a slightly older version of linux you can find much more help online as more people have used it and have fixes for it.

I shall try to persevere with Fedora for now. I used to use Mandrake 9.1 for the Toshiba but I've been led to believe that Fedora's a much more stable version - once you've got it working in the first place. If it ain't working, then I'll have to switch myself back to Mandrake.

Message Edited by incubism on 10-10-2005 02:24 AM