Installing Fedora 11 on a Gateway LT3103u
I’ve seen people searching and looking for information on this netbook and Linux, and I know how little is out there, so I figured I’d get this post started, even if it is a bit premature.
I just finished installing Fedora 11 using the Install DVD. Unfortunately, I failed to get the OS to install using the Net Install CD. It would fail halfway through, though I have a suspicion that it was my external DVD drive, and not necessarily the netbook.
After the initial install, the wireless sees networks but can’t connect to my WPA network. I’m doing a yum update now (453 packages!) and once that’s done, I’ll take a deeper look. There’s a post somewhere that says you need the latest ath9k driver and a patch for the synaptics touchpad to make scrolling work, but so far my scrolling is working fine, so perhaps that’s been patched already.
I’ll update this post once I get further along in making all the hardware work well. Then I’ll go on to do the same thing with Ubuntu.
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Hey Chris, I think its great what your doing, as your my only source of info for linux on the LT3103. I was recently using UBUNTU but made the switch today to Fedora 11. I am encountering the same problem you described earlier where my wireless sees networks but wont connect to my WPA. Currently I am attempting to change the network adapter to see if that works. Did you expeirence any static on the screen too? Thanks for your research so far… Please post soon.