Fedora Core 6 Upgrade on an Acer Aspire 5672WLMi Laptop

Updated 2/5/07

Introduction:

This page describes how to install Fedora Core 6 on this Acer Aspire Laptop.


Installation:

See page 1 of this article on the basic installation techniques for installing Fedora on this laptop.


Hardware Detection:

Audio:

Works fine. The audio is detected as an Intel ALC882 High Definition Controller. The upgrade process had no impact on sound functioning.

Networking:

I ran into a particular quirk with both Fedora Core 5 and 6, in terms of the lack of a correct kernel link to the kernel source files. You may have to add an appropriate symbolic link to point to the kernel source files. 

ln -fs /usr/src/kernels/<kernel-version> /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build


For the first time in when I can remember, I elected to upgrade my Fedora Core 5 installation to Fedora Core 6. I ran into some perplexing problems with wireless. Namely, the basic installation of ipw3945 modules kept failing, complaining about an invalid module format. Apparently, there is some sort of kernel bug in the process. However, I found an article on Fedora Core 6 installations that solved the issue. 1

First, I uninstalled all packages for ieee8021 and ipw3945 that Fedora installed through the Software installer and followed the above article reference 1 instructiions to a tee. I had a fully functional wireless connection. The recommended packages were installed manually, in the following order;

ieee80211-kmdl-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6-1.2.16-17.fc6.at.i586.rpm
ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6-1.2.0-18.2.fc6.at.i586.rpm
ipw3945-1.2.0-18.2.fc6.at.i386.rpm

The installation, when manually done in this manner, installs the proper packages, inclusing the ipw3945 daemon package. Note the kernel package types installed (i386 and i586).



References:


  1. Installing Fedora Core 6 on an HP Pavilion dv9000