Fedora 9 Issues

Ok finally got around to installing Fedora 9 and there seems to be more than the usual share of issues !!

1. Synaptic touchpad don't work out of the box installation - [UPDATE] check my later postings on this topic.
   
2. wpa_supplicant is still kicking in way after networking has started - I don't know why RedHat/Fedora still thinks WiFi is a optional add on network device.
3. Grub gets confused with which XP partition is primary - my second partition is flagged as bootable yet it configured grub.conf with hd(0,2)
4. mke2fs defaults to inode size of 256 - this is not backward compatible and more specifically it won't work with EXT2 IFS windows ext2 driver.
   

If your life depends on tapping on your touch pad - be ready to change configurations. This is an outstanding open issue https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439386

wpa_supplicant is still an issue as my post from Fedora 7 mentions. Do note it doesnt prevent networking from establishing or WiFi being unavailable. It is just irritating and it is definitely not the "right thing" to do. If wpa_supplicant starts after networking your wlan0 device will start and not finding the right device available will go to sleep and wait for it to return which happens whenever wpa_supplicant starts successfully.

The third point needs elaboration since my partition layout is a bit unusual. I have three entries - one linux and two NTFS - the second entry points to the third physical partition and the third entry is pointing to the second physical partition. Although common sense says trust the partition table and not the layout !!