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["Jose Bernardo Silva" <jbs AT bandos.homelinux.com>]

On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 10:42:03 -0500, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote
> Hi All,
> 
> I have just received my amd64 laptop after repair. I intend to set 
> it up with the new x86_64 iso image (which yesterday fit onto my 
> small CD-RW disc that says 185 MB on its face). It is Emachines 
> M6805 with broadcom wireless b/g (worked with ndiswrapper), a "rhino-
> 2"-driver ethernet card, and ati radeon 9600, among other things. If 
> there's anything I need to pay attention to, please shoot me an 
> email. Also, do I remember correctly that this iso can't install 
> grub? Thanks!
 
Sergey,

AFAIK you'll need to "roll your own" version of the ati spell, to have the
drivers for the x86_64. As for ndiswrapper, I don't know if it will work. Too
bad the chipset is broadcom, that crap isn't supported in linux in any other 
way.

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