Acedip

Finally I sit gazing at my new laptop. I dont think no one has ever spend so much time in getting a new machine, it took me over 4 months to get this one, no!, I’m no weirdo but the situation and more over ones which I liked had larger issues with fedora and once you cant get what you want, you wait, so I waited and here I am finally relieved.

Installation of fedora 11 was quite quick keeping in mind almost all the packages I’d selected to install amounting uptp 1400 of them, and then the system booted, It felt really great on seeing the fedora screen once more in my life (after a short stint with ubuntu because of hardware issues). I choose not to send my hardware profile to smolt until later time and had to do it late with

[Acedip@localhost ~]#smoltSendProfile

and here is my machines hardware profile.

Everything seems fine till now, but I sensed some troubles coming my way as soon as I saw that Broadcom Corporation in my network chips, and there I was struggling over a few late night hours to get my wireless working. I was pretty determined to have it my way and finally after brooding over a couple of web pages and some help from #fedora got the wireless working with this.

Well while fixing it i noticed that the above link would largely satisfy all broadcom wireless needs but this one really helped in knowing about broadcom chips here but this can only satisfy your hungry mind and not actually help you with the issue and I also got to know that there is an IRC channel for broadcom BCMxxxx users at freenode: #bcm-users, though its always better to do your homework before you go to that channel.

Though I still have some minor issues like battery tray icon often doesnt give right readings, but it has to be fixed ASAP, and the default brightness controller keys does not work properly either.

Well the pictures are fine looking at the output from sony ericsson k530i.

The sound of the machine is pretty awesome with two speaker built in the screen. Later I installed Gnash for playing flash, comix for viewing pictures in archives and as the name signifies to view comics, and did other usual stuff to get my machine up to date with all non-free codecs etc. and when I checked for update I was again astonished to see 900Mbs of yum update, woof!!