Old laptop setup reference

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. Wifi device not detected 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 Slow boot problem Since the boot process is very slow so add this line to /etc/default/grub ...

December 30, 2018 · 1 min · Suraj Deshmukh