I tried installing beta2 on my ProStar laptop, which has a standard EIDE hard drive, an ESS Maestro sound chip, an ATI Rage 3D video card, and a Linksys WPC11 wireless network card.
This was an install (not upgrade), and I used a free area on the disk to create the root partition. I noticed that when I selected CREATE under the "Setup Filesystems" dialog, the initial space setting for the free area (which was about 1GB) was only 169MB. The partition size slider would not slide, although it did respond to clicking on the portion of the slider bar to the right of the slider button The sound card and video were handled fine. When it got to "Configure Networking", I deselected the modem choice and selected LAN configuration. I don't think that the network detection recognized the card, since it didn't come up with LAN preselected, only the modem. The list of drivers contained orinoco.plx, which I selected because the driver I use under 8.1 is the orinoco.o driver, and that was the only orinoco choice there. I don't know if they are the same or not. The install gave a message box that flew by too fast to read, and then reported that the load for module orinoco.plx had failed, and gave me the option to provide parameters. Since I don't provide any parameters to the orinoco driver under 8.1, I tried again with the same results, and cancelled out. The new system booted correctly from floppy, and I opened the MCC to see if I'd have any better luck configuring the network after the fact. The network page showed "Internet Access" (and this should really be changed to "Dialup Access") as not connected, and selecting Expert Mode gave me two "Configure" buttons, one for Internet Access and one for LAN. Clicking Configure Internet Access gave an error window saying "you don't have any Internet Connection, create one by clicking on Configure", and clicking Configure LAN gave "you don't have any configured interface, Configre them by clivking on Configure". Trouble is, I had just clicked the only two Configure buttons in the dialog. I then tried the Wizard, but got the same results as during install. Autodetect found only the serial card. I deselected that and selected LAN, chose orinoco.plx, and the load failed. I tried clicking Previous from the prompt "Do you want to retry with parameters", and the Wizard closed immediately, leaving the cursor as a clock.
