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“Just updated two Dell laptops from Fedora 14 to Fedora 15. The Dell 820 has the Broadcom BCM4312 based wireless mini_PCI...fails. The Dell D630 has the IntelPRO card...no problem. Not thrilled with the Gnome 3.0 change. The D820 has to run crippled with an external Ethernet to 802.11b/g gaming adapter until I can fix the wireless drivers.Annoying.

The switch to the 3.0 kernel numbering will impact folks who carefully script installs against kernel version. Another time burner for no net gain in features.”

I just turned on my Dell w/Windows 7 and it worked. No time burned ;-).

I'm running very old Dell laptops that were headed for the recycler. The price was right (free). The initial loads of Fedora 14 installed and ran perfectly. Many months of worry free operation. It was my rush to move to Fedora 15 that shot me in the foot.

I can assure you that I've wasted many more hours helping people with Win 7 problems. Definitely a time burner. The D820 isn't even supported by Dell for Win 7.