I had recently purchased one of this MSI Wind netbooks to take with me to university instead of lugging around my huge HP notebook. I was suddenly confronted with the dilema that it comes with Windows XP, something which I was not too pleased about really. Being a Linux system admin I felt it was time to get a full linux system going as I was sick of dual-booting my HP system. Initially I tried a couple of linux distro’s and played around with them, Ubuntu, LinuxMint, and Fedora were my candidates. The debian based distros did not play very well at all with my hardware and couldn’t pick up the 1024×600 screen resolution and kept me down to 800×600, something you certainly do not appreciate on a 10″ screen. I will go into some of the steps required to get your MSI Wind running Fedora Core 10 to run perfectly.
Mar
10
2009
10
2009
Getting the MSI Wind and Fedora Core 10 to work
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I’m working on a similar project win a MSI U100, instead installing CentOS. I was able to get a successful (bootable) installation but had a problem that the NIC was marginal. Sometimes requiring several cold boots to work properly. I’m installing from a USB DVD drive instead of a usb thumb drive
Have you had any problem with the builtin network card?
If by NIC you mean the ethernet and not wireless, then no that worked out of the box. Check what version of NetworkManger you have. As for the wireless card, see above, it worked after adding the rpmfusion repo’s and installing the ralink driver. You may have a different version, I have:
kmod-rt2860.i686 1.8.0.0-3.fc10.3
good guide, however for the wireless part the “./ncdiag” and “./installNC.sh” are outdated stupid scripts and a bit confusing for beginners as they require you to pass the correct parameters to install the ncsvc. Alternatively you can do this as your final step:
cd ~/.juniper_networks/network_connect/
sudo install -m 6711 -o root ../tmp/ncsvc ncsvc
Regards
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Joannah
http://linuxmemory.net
Hey,
I had mine working without any of this for a while. It was done just using firefox. Then, my profile got corrupted and I had to create a new profile. Ever since, it hasn’t worked. I can’t figure out why.
I used to open up firefox, and then go to the network connect site, and it’d ask me for root password. I entered it, and it worked fine. I may have remembered playing around with allowing javascript to allow window resizing or something like that.
I get:
Insufficiant number of parameters
./installNC.sh
for ./installNC.sh
I also get:
install: cannot stat `../tmp/ncsvc’: No such file or directory
when I try sudo install -m 6711 -o root ../tmp/ncsvc ncsvc
Where is the tmp supposed to be? What’s it trying to access and where?
Any ideas on how to just get it working normally with firefox? I’m going to keep trying over the next couple of days and will post up on here if I find something
ps. I’m using Kubuntu
@Keerthi
Sorry for the awefully late reply. It seems that you do not actually need to run the install at all. Just making sure your Linux install is not using OpenJDK and has the latest J2SE is enough, the browser can do the rest.