Anyone had any luck with the 8886?

[ROBOTHOUSE!]

Well, I've been banging my n00bie head against the wall for the past week or so. I've tried Redhat8... with limited results. I can't get my pcmcia or USB stuff to work. I've tried, Mandrake, which I couldn't even get rolling. Now I'm having my hand at gentoo with the help of a friend with some more experience with Linux. Anyone else had any success on their 8886? I'd be interested to see if anyone got their USB and/or PCMCIA working correctly.

[beakmyn]

I've yet to attempt it since as I've heard it's not easy.
Try doing an advanced install with the -nousb -nopcmcia -noautoprobe options, that's what's hanging up the install. I'll try it tonight and let you know tomorrow how it goes.

[Lucky Vic]

Mandrake 9.1 beta2 works great on 8886.
I had too many probs w/ Red Hat.. 7, 8, beta...

Pcmcia, Usb, Mp3 player, Tvtuner, Dvd (Ogle), etc. all recognized - appear ok.
thanks, kvman
http://www.powernotebooks.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=49&sid=69ff31854d4ac85ab27618394cde6295

d/l here:
http://www.linuxiso.org/download.php/458/MandrakeLinux-9.1beta2-CD1.i586.iso
http://www.linuxiso.org/download.php/461/MandrakeLinux-9.1beta2-CD2.i586.iso

or mirrors
http://www.linuxiso.org/viewmirrors.php/458

Boot to Cd, hit F1, then alt2 at prompt. Ignore pcmcia error. It will work @ reboot.

Choose the C compiler at install. needed for s/w install later.

Video card appears in list. Seems to work ok @ max resolution.
Kde 3.1 is awesome.

My DNS ip address was set incorrectly, couldn't get on WWW. If you set Ip, then go to (advanced?) & set.

I tested a 3com 10/100 56k pc card, ok.
USB cuecat scanner ok.
I don't have any firewire devices, so I can't test.

Hope this helps.
Lucky Vic

[dirtboy]

I'm installing Gentoo at the moment, but I wanted to check what I have against what your distros installed. Can one of you go to a terminal, su to root, and give me the output of lsmod? That lists the modules that are loaded for the hardware.

[beakmyn]

I'll try the new version then. I got 9 to work kinda. Right now I'm trying to live with 9 on an old 166Mhz and it's not pretty. I can almost see graphics render pixel by pixel.

Anybody know of a nice lightweight distro of Linux. The only catch is to have be able to install the games from KDE. My wife loves the games. I'll probably use the blackbox shell though.

[dirtboy]

Debian works great, and you only insall what you need, not all those packages that RH and Mandrake install that you never use. Its a little more difficult to install than the big two, but you hardly ever run into missing libraries with apt-get. It looks at what you have and what the software needs and gets evrything you need to get it running.

I normally wouldn't suggest it unless you are familiar with kernel modules.

[denkc]

debian seems to be the most popular among linux enthusiasts, but i don't think i've ever met a linux enthusiast using gentoo who didn't like it.

Mandrake is for people like me who have little idea about what all the junk is. One of the things I didn't like about debian was that i couldn't go back in the install. That, and every time i installed there was some error. So mandrake worked fine for me.

[laclasse]

debian debian debian or my latest favorite Lr-s : http://www.lrs-linux.co.uk ;) My Sager is arriving next friday yahoooooo :banana:

[beakmyn]

mandrake 9.1 beta 3 is out
I've switched to burning on CD-RWs now.