Sunday, June 03, 2007

Upgraded to Fedora 7

I have upgraded to fedora 7 (F7) in my laptop. The installation went smooth. As recommended by Fedora team, I basically installed F7 and didnt upgrade from Fedor Core 5(FC5). I had a few problems configuring my wireless but finally had it working. F7 comes with native drivers for my broadcom wireless card. Since I used ndiswrapper for configuring wireless in FC5, I wanted to take that route. so I installed ndiswrapper but then encountered conflicts with the native driver. After reading couple forums, I finally re-installed F7, blacklisted the native driver (bcm43xx, bcm43xx-mac80211) by adding an entry (blacklist bcm43xx, blacklist bcm43xx-mac80211) onto /etc/modprobe.conf , /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-compat and then installed ndiswrapper and configured my wireless card. The Login screen, desktop themes looks great. I installed skype, realplayer, xmms and flash plugin and all of them went smooth. I am yet to install Oracle and think I'll probably do it after my summer semester.Fedora 7 is so far so good.

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