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    Fedora 8 released

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by John B, Nov 8, 2007.

  1. John B

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    Awesome! I've been waiting. I'll definitely fire up bittorrent tonight.
     
    altimar, Nov 8, 2007
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    Fittersman Wanna trade?

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    didnt work on my laptop :'( so i just went back to ubuntu 7.10

    if anyone knows how to make it work that would be great, it boots off the live cd but then it stalls at "Running /sbin/loader" and wont go any furthur
     
    Fittersman, Nov 10, 2007
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    Bog Losing it...

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    Sorry to go off-topic here, but does anyone know of a distribution that has full integrated support for Broadcom bcm4312 (rev 2) cards? I've tried Ubuntu 7.10 and PCLOS 2007 and tried following how-tos with both, but nothing seems to get the wireless going.:/
     
    Bog, Nov 10, 2007
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    heavyrain2408 Notebook Guru

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    I've tried to install several times but failed :-| The image file was downloaded directly from Fedora project's website but it does not work.
     
    heavyrain2408, Nov 11, 2007
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    that might be my problem too, i think ill try downloading it again
     
    Fittersman, Nov 12, 2007
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