Fedora 10 on a stick?
Need to work on your own OS but find lugging around a laptop too troublesome? Now you can! Just bring along an USB stick with F10 installed on it! (Or any other linux distribution for that matter).
As posted on Lifehacker, with just a few easy steps, you will be able to have a bootable USB stick with Fedora installed.
Of course, the easy part is the installation of the system. Once you have the OS booted and running, you may or may not face a couple of driver hiccups for the wireless card on your laptop/desktop.
I encountered the above named problem on my HP tx1222au laptop. After much googling and experimenting, I found that using the Autoten RPM scripts helped to solve my Broadcom Wireless (BCM4312) b43 driver problems.
There are a few other solutions that I have not tried, but one of them is the real Linux Broadcom driver (broadcom-wl). You can find the step-by-step instructions here. The steps are repeated below:
Code:
su
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
yum update
yum install broadcom-wl
The third method is to use Ndiswrapper to wrap the window drivers for use in a Linux environment.
- First, grab the windows version of the driver. The SYS and INF files are needed.
- Next, you will need to install ndiswrapper:
Code:
su -
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
yum update
yum install ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper -i [driver INF filename here]
ndiswrapper -mi - Once done, reboot the machine or restart the network connection manager.
I hope these steps have proven useful to anyone who had trouble with their Broadcom wireless cards.