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  • From: "Jose Bernardo Silva" <jbs AT bandos.homelinux.com>
  • To: <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Cc: "Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT sourcemage.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] stuff to test for x86_64 iso image?
  • Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 16:00:06 +0000

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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