AJ's Note

Power Management options(ACPI,APM) -ACPI --include custom DSDT !! Disable(uncheck it) ide_fix_driveid -Device Drivers / USB Mass Storage Support / ids200...(Uncheck it)

1 make xconfig -----> GUI/ gtk based 2 make menuconfig ----> ncurses based 3. After you make all choices save settings into .config file 4. Run$ nice +19 make bzImage 5. $ nice +19 make modules This will take a long time so go to sleep... 6. Run make modules_install Warning: This will install modules in /lib/modules directory. 7. cp /usr/src/linux-your-version/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-your-version 8. cp /usr/src/linux-your-version/System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.11-version 9. cp /usr/src/linux-your-version/.config /boot/config-2.6.11-version 10. Unlink the old vmlinuz, initrd depmod -ae -F System.map 2.6.14-default cp /usr/src/linux-2.6.14/System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.14 ln -S /boot/System.map-2.6.14 /boot/System.map 11. Now execute, mkinitrd -k vmlinuz-2.6.11-version -i initrd-2.6.11-version -b /boot try mkinitrd -k vmlinuz-2.6.14-default -i initrd-2.6.14-default -b /boot -a acpi_dsdt done. mkinitrd -k ...

- INSTALLATION ACPI Disable / GRUB Option acpi=off Broadcom Wireless NIC - http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net - ndiswrapper & wireless tools Pkg Install (YaST2) (included on ver.10 DVD) - identify the card #lspci -n Card: Broadcom BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller Laptop: HP Pavilion ze4900 Chipset: Broadcom 4306 pciid: 14e4:4320 (rev 03) Driver: Broadcom WLAN Network Driver [27] or bcmwl5.sys on Application/Driver Recovery DVD provided with laptop Other: I installed this driver on Fedora Core 3 with the 4K stack (no problems thus far) and ndiswrapper-1.1. The installation worked exactly as the Installation notes says it should. - prepare NIC Driver for Windows XP (xxx.inf) - in case of Broadcom uses "bcmwl5.inf", "bcmwl5.sys" jungbdn:~ # ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf Installing bcmwl5 Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2 Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to ...