These are only my notes that I scribbled down while setting up a Dell Latitude D800 Laptop. I hope it will help someone in configuring their system under similar settings. I have only tried to get it to a stage where I can access the gui interface! It should be easy from then on....
Specifications
- Hardware:
- Intel Pentium M processor, 1400MHz
- FUJITSU MHT2040AH, ATA DISK drive, 40 GB Capacity
- 512MB RAM
- ATAPI CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive
- NVDIA GeForce FX Go5200 Video Card, AGP 4X Bus with 32MB Memory
- Operating Systems:
- Windows 2000 Pro
- FedoraCore
Installing Dual Boot Windows 2000 or XP and Linux
Partitioning Drive
Installing Fedora
Dual Booting
Troubleshooting XFree86 GUI display!
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Unofficial Fedora Core 2 Guide for Beginners
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Tweaking Fedora Core 1 Installation
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Setting up the Modem for Fedora Core 1 on the Dell Latitude D800
Modem is Conexant D480 MDC V.92 with my "lspci | grep Modem" output as below:
You need the HSF (softmodem) Driver from linuxant.com.
Download the version built for your kernel. To see your current kernel version:
Or... if you have a custom kernel, you may need to build from source. See the installation notes.
Upon installation of the driver, I was successfully able to configure my ppp connection through the gui interface. (Main Menu > System Tools > Internet Configuration Wizard)
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