Situation Trusting to the power of Linux on my laptop, I blindly ordered an AirH Edge connectivity card from JCR (Air-H (Edge) Data Card for Laptops – No Airtime or Data Charges). Prior to leaving the US, I downloaded a few things, anticipating that I’d be ‘flying blind’ since I wouldn’t be able to connect [...]

Situation This machine previously had FC6 (upgraded FC1 -> FC2 -> FC3 -> FC4 -> FC5 -> FC6).However, the machine can’t boot from USB. Solution suggested elsewhere : Download ISO (F-7-i386-DVD.iso) via bittorrent Copy ISO into /root/Fedora7/ mount the ISO via loopback : cp the isolinux/vmlinuz and isolinux/initrd.img file from the iso to the /boot [...]

No Problemo! Wireless, etc, flawless. Remember to install Wireless Assistant. USB mouse works instantly. Suspend works fine (need to /etc/init.d/network restart to reinstate wireless sometimes. Hibernate doesn’t seem to work right.