+++ author = "Suraj Deshmukh" title = "Old laptop setup reference" description = "Links and things to do while setting up older Dell Inspiron 1525" date = "2018-12-30T01:00:51+05:30" categories = ["notes"] tags = ["laptop", "dell"] +++
I have this old PC Dell Inspiron 1525 with 2GB RAM and 32 bit dual core processor and I wanted to install fedora on it, but I cam accross few problems which I am documenting for further reference.
The wifi drivers are not loaded by default, so followed this blog, basically do following:
export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware"
wget http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2
tar xjf broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2
cd broadcom-wl-5.100.138/linux/
sudo b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware wl_apsta.o
Since the boot process is very slow so add this line to /etc/default/grub
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash video=SVIDEO-1:d"
Update grub using
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
Disabled SELinux and it stopped reporting those issues. For which just change the line from SELinux=enforcing
to SELinux=disabled
in /etc/sysconfig/selinux
. Need to figure out why those errors were reported in a loop.
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