Hey, all! I've asked a lot of questions here, so I figure I'd add to the group knowledge for once. <G>
I recently picked up a Fujitsu P-2046. The thing is beautiful. Tiny, sufficiently fast, and, more to my purposes, has 802.11b, modem, and 10/100 all built in. But the biggest selling point for me was the battery life. With the hi-capacity battery and the CD bay battery, this baby packe a wonderful 14.5 hours of power. Bwahahahah. Ok. So the plan from the start is to make tis thing dual-boot Mandrake/Win2k. (I need Win2k for work...) My recently deceased laptop had just gotten an upgrade to a 30GB hard drive, and the P-2046 comes with a 20G drive, so I swapped them. I partitioned the drive with about 10G for Windows, 10 for /, 1 for swap, a little bit for /boot, and the rest as a FAT32 data drive. The Win2k install was the usual deal: multiple reboots, the search for drivers, etc. Nothing major other than that. So I go to install Linux.... and it hangs immediately after PCI probing and before the hard drive detection. Waa. OK, so I look around online. Seems there are people running Mandrake, Red Hat, and Debian on the P-2040, but not the 2046. (The difference is the wireless LAN card.) So I try a few of the things they suggest. I added different options to the boot prompt: disabling PCI probing, using the bios to track IRQ's... nada. I even made a boot floppy with some guy's kernel on it. It booted fine... but wouldn't detect the CDROM. Debian booted Ok, but the installer was so unfriendly, I scrapped that idea. Finally I found my key: a new set of options at boot: boot: linux ide0=ata66 ide1=ata66 No clue why this works. But it did. The screen does a max resolution (without panning) of 1280x768, but 1024x768 works, too. Just a bit stretched. There are several pages out there for the 2040, and as far as I can tell all the info for them is the same as the 2046, except the WLAN. So.... Coming soon: Wireless LAN and WAN on the Fujitsu P-2046. (...it seems to be PCI but the interface won't come up.) Brian --------------------------------------------------------------- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spam me and DIE! | | http://www.datasquire.net | | Co-Founder & Co-Owner of | | Data Squire Internet Services | --------------------------------------------------------------- ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
