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Dlink DWL-G650 driver for Fedora 6
by Bobby Meeker 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

Hi. I just installed Fedora 6 on my IBM thinkpad 600x. I'm a computer engineer by trade and have often worked in Unix development environments, but this is my first foray into the realm of Linux. I have a dlink DWL-650 (revB) PCMCIA wireless card which I want to use to connect to the internet. My labtop is pretty useless to me if I cant get online. Trouble is I can not seem to be able to find a linux driver for this card. I queried DLINK and got forwarded to the madwifi.org site. But their drivers only seem to work with a Atheros chipset, which I do not have. I tried anyways and sure enough the make failed. Does anybody have any suggestions on how I might be able to make my DWL-650 card work with Linux? Does anybody know of PCMCIA wireless cards that come with linux drivers/support? Thanks bobby --------------------------------------------------------------------- "In times of change, learners inherit the earth" -- Erich Fromm --------------------------------- Have a burning question? Go to Yahoo! Answers and get answers from real people who know.

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Cisco MPI 350 wireless Adapter
by Sripathy K 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

Hi, I recently installed FC6 on my T42. The wireless connection doesnot work. The airo driver seems to be present but the NetworkManager fails to configure this adapter. I have done a bit of googling and found a few old threads which recomend downgrading the wireless adapters' firmware. Is this a necessity even now? I did download from cisco website the linux-acu-driver-v21.tar.gz driver, but it fails to compile on this machine. Any ideas on how to get this working? Thanks for your help. Sripathy PS: I could not find anything from the archives of this mailing list.

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Kernel Sources
by Ken Ramey 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

I have a NetGear WiFi card that I have been using on a laptop by "LinuxCertified" for a few years now. Unfortunately, the card uses the "Atheros" chip set and requires a kernel driver to be built in order to work. Lately, I have been unable to find the kernel sources for my Fedora system in order to update the driver . Can anyone suggest a source for the sources? Ideally, a "yum" repository so that the kernel sources will track my kernel upgrades. I am currently at 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 Failing that, does anyone know of a WiFi card that works "out of the box" with Fedora Core 6? Either solution would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. ken -- email: ramey.ken(a)gmail.com cell: 520-360-5852 web: http://www.zazzle.com/kramey

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intel pro/set wireless
by Andrew Raggett 29 Jan '07

29 Jan '07

Hi I am having difficulty getting Fedora core 6 to recognise my wireless adapter. It is not listed and the wifi button isn't highlighted. I have tried to follow online instructions but they are too complicated for my non-programming mind, yet this is the only thing that isn't working on this otherwise flawless (so far) platform Anyone who has a bit of patience please could you help out? What do I need to look for? Is it really that difficult to get it working?! cheers __________________________________________________ Preguntá. Respondé. Descubrí. Todo lo que querías saber, y lo que ni imaginabas, está en Yahoo! Respuestas (Beta). ¡Probalo ya! http://www.yahoo.com.ar/respuestas

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Two linux systems?
by Andrew Raggett 27 Jan '07

27 Jan '07

Hi I have just installed fedora core 6 on my latitude and noticed when I select the boot menu there appear to be two versions installed along with my windows xp OS - the boot screen gives 3 options: Fedora Core (2.6.19-1.2895.fc6) Fedora Core (2.6.19-1.2798.fc6) Windows XP It seems to default to the first one but what are these two? Grateful for any help __________________________________________________ Preguntá. Respondé. Descubrí. Todo lo que querías saber, y lo que ni imaginabas, está en Yahoo! Respuestas (Beta). ¡Probalo ya! http://www.yahoo.com.ar/respuestas

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Re: Fedora-laptop-list Digest, Vol 9, Issue 11
by Erick Muller 27 Jan '07

27 Jan '07

don't worry about that is just the system has updated the kernel package I recommend you to leave this configuration so if you notice a behaviour of something in your system you can rollback to the previous and stablest version of the kernel, remember that the kernel is the heart of your linux system and it's always updating and improving Greetings, Erick Müller Sent via BlackBerry by Erick Müller Z. IT21 S.A. de C.V. Tels. 5563-1904 5563-7328 emuller(a)it21mx.com BB Pin: 2053B9CE -----Original Message----- From: fedora-laptop-list-request(a)redhat.com Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:00:06 To:fedora-laptop-list@redhat.com Subject: Fedora-laptop-list Digest, Vol 9, Issue 11 Send Fedora-laptop-list mailing list submissions to fedora-laptop-list(a)redhat.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-laptop-list or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to fedora-laptop-list-request(a)redhat.com You can reach the person managing the list at fedora-laptop-list-owner(a)redhat.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Fedora-laptop-list digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Two linux systems? (Andrew Raggett) 2. intel pro/set wireless (Andrew Raggett) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:51:57 +0200 From: Andrew Raggett <andyraggett(a)yahoo.com.ar> Subject: Two linux systems? To: fedora-laptop-list(a)redhat.com Message-ID: <1169913117.3157.2.camel(a)localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Hi I have just installed fedora core 6 on my latitude and noticed when I select the boot menu there appear to be two versions installed along with my windows xp OS - the boot screen gives 3 options: Fedora Core (2.6.19-1.2895.fc6) Fedora Core (2.6.19-1.2798.fc6) Windows XP It seems to default to the first one but what are these two? Grateful for any help __________________________________________________ Preguntá. Respondé. Descubrí. Todo lo que querías saber, y lo que ni imaginabas, está en Yahoo! Respuestas (Beta). ¡Probalo ya! http://www.yahoo.com.ar/respuestas ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:54:15 +0200 From: Andrew Raggett <andyraggett(a)yahoo.com.ar> Subject: intel pro/set wireless To: fedora-laptop-list(a)redhat.com Message-ID: <1169913255.3157.6.camel(a)localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Hi I am having difficulty getting Fedora core 6 to recognise my wireless adapter. It is not listed and the wifi button isn't highlighted. I have tried to follow online instructions but they are too complicated for my non-programming mind, yet this is the only thing that isn't working on this otherwise flawless (so far) platform Anyone who has a bit of patience please could you help out? What do I need to look for? Is it really that difficult to get it working?! cheers __________________________________________________ Preguntá. Respondé. Descubrí. Todo lo que querías saber, y lo que ni imaginabas, está en Yahoo! Respuestas (Beta). ¡Probalo ya! http://www.yahoo.com.ar/respuestas ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fedora-laptop-list mailing list Fedora-laptop-list(a)redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-laptop-list End of Fedora-laptop-list Digest, Vol 9, Issue 11 *************************************************

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Re: Fedora-laptop-list Digest, Vol 9, Issue 11
by David Dembrow 27 Jan '07

27 Jan '07

The same thing happened to me after I updated everything via yum update. One of the update packages is the kernel. However, one typically does not replace the kernel unless it is a known good kernel - so the previous is always available in case the new kernel fails. In your case the 2798 kernel is the one before an update and the 2895 kernel is the one that was updated and should be used as the default. Hope that helps. Of course I probably don't know what I am talking about. ---d.dembrow > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:51:57 +0200 > From: Andrew Raggett <andyraggett(a)yahoo.com.ar> > Subject: Two linux systems? > To: fedora-laptop-list(a)redhat.com > Message-ID: <1169913117.3157.2.camel(a)localhost.localdomain> > Content-Type: text/plain > > Hi > > I have just installed fedora core 6 on my latitude and noticed when I > select the boot menu there appear to be two versions installed along > with my windows xp OS - the boot screen gives 3 options: > > Fedora Core (2.6.19-1.2895.fc6) > Fedora Core (2.6.19-1.2798.fc6) > Windows XP > > It seems to default to the first one but what are these two? > > Grateful for any help > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Preguntá. Respondé. Descubrí. > Todo lo que querías saber, y lo que ni imaginabas, > está en Yahoo! Respuestas (Beta). > ¡Probalo ya! > http://www.yahoo.com.ar/respuestas > >

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annoying cursor
by beast 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

Does anyone having same experience with thunderbird? whenever I type something, the text cursor was suddently move into anywhere where the mouse pointer was. Im not sure this problem with tbird or the synaptics driver. --beast

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Re: NetworkManager settings
by beast 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

Gianluca Sforna wrote: > On 1/16/07, Beast <beast(a)ldap.or.id> wrote: >> Dan Morozov wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > /etc/resolv.conf >> > >> [beast@butterfly etc]$ cat /etc/resolv.conf >> # generated by NetworkManager, do not edit! >> nameserver 10.1.1.2 >> >> It will be overwrite everytime NM runs. I check in >> $HOME/.gconf/system/networking/wireless/networks/sid/%gconf but none >> mentions about IP and DNS settings. > > AFAIK NM polls the connection for IP and DNS informations; in other > words, those info are taken from a DHCP server I did not use dyn IP and I have no DHCP server running either. I setup static IP using script in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d The problem is the nameserver IP setup by NM was incorrect, I need to fix it but confuse which file to be edited. --beast

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NetworkManager settings
by beast 16 Jan '07

16 Jan '07

Where did NetworkManager keep the settings about IP address and DNS? Thanks.

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