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["Andrew \"ruskie\" Levstik" <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx>]

Jose Bernardo Silva wrote :

> 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.
> 

I can easily add the x86_64 support to the spell... but it will be untested...

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