Re: Wireless LAN cards for Fedora?

2008-08-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jesus Jr M Salvo wrote: 2008/8/8 Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jesus Jr M Salvo wrote: Well ... my experience is different from those in the reviews ( maybe they were using windows as some were talking about re-install? ). Signal strength is about 75% according to network-manager when I

Re: Wireless LAN cards for Fedora?

2008-08-08 Thread Jesus Jr M Salvo
2008/8/8 Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jesus Jr M Salvo wrote: 2008/8/6 Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jesus Jr M Salvo wrote: 2008/8/1 bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED]: hi... for my $0.02 i would argue for getting a cheap ~$40 linksys G usb wireless dongle... i have a laptop, amd

Re: Wireless LAN cards for Fedora?

2008-08-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jesus Jr M Salvo wrote: 2008/8/6 Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jesus Jr M Salvo wrote: 2008/8/1 bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED]: hi... for my $0.02 i would argue for getting a cheap ~$40 linksys G usb wireless dongle... i have a laptop, amd x64, running fedora8, and after trying for a few

Re: Wireless LAN cards for Fedora?

2008-08-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jesus Jr M Salvo wrote: 2008/8/1 bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED]: hi... for my $0.02 i would argue for getting a cheap ~$40 linksys G usb wireless dongle... i have a laptop, amd x64, running fedora8, and after trying for a few days to get the madwifi/atheros stuff working, i got the usb dongle,

Re: Wireless LAN cards for Fedora?

2008-08-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jesus Jr M Salvo wrote: 2008/8/1 bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED]: hi... for my $0.02 i would argue for getting a cheap ~$40 linksys G usb wireless dongle... i have a laptop, amd x64, running fedora8, and after trying for a few days to get the madwifi/atheros stuff working, i got the usb dongle,

Re: Wireless LAN cards for Fedora?

2008-08-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
Todd Zullinger wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Actually, since this is all noarch stuff which doesn't depend on release, that's irrelevant, other than his needed to download it by hand. I think it is quite relevant, especially for someone looking for wireless firmware. He'd be exposing a system

Re: Wireless LAN cards for Fedora?

2008-08-05 Thread Todd Zullinger
Bill Davidsen wrote: Todd Zullinger wrote: I think it is quite relevant, especially for someone looking for wireless firmware. He'd be exposing a system that has not had any security updates for over a year wirelessly. That's not a wise idea at all, and one that I think should be

Re: Wireless LAN cards for Fedora?

2008-08-04 Thread Todd Denniston
Bill Davidsen wrote, On 08/02/2008 12:10 PM: Todd Zullinger wrote: Colin Paul Adams wrote: It doesn't seem to be available for FC6. Fedora Core 6 is not supported and hasn't been for well over a year. Actually, since this is all noarch stuff which doesn't depend on release, that's

Re: Wireless LAN cards for Fedora?

2008-08-04 Thread Todd Zullinger
Bill Davidsen wrote: Actually, since this is all noarch stuff which doesn't depend on release, that's irrelevant, other than his needed to download it by hand. I think it is quite relevant, especially for someone looking for wireless firmware. He'd be exposing a system that has not had any

Re: Wireless LAN cards for Fedora?

2008-08-04 Thread Jesus Jr M Salvo
2008/8/1 bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED]: hi... for my $0.02 i would argue for getting a cheap ~$40 linksys G usb wireless dongle... i have a laptop, amd x64, running fedora8, and after trying for a few days to get the madwifi/atheros stuff working, i got the usb dongle, plugged it in, and lo

Re: Wireless LAN cards for Fedora?

2008-08-02 Thread Bill Davidsen
Todd Zullinger wrote: Colin Paul Adams wrote: It doesn't seem to be available for FC6. Fedora Core 6 is not supported and hasn't been for well over a year. Actually, since this is all noarch stuff which doesn't depend on release, that's irrelevant, other than his needed to download it by

Re: Wireless LAN cards for Fedora?

2008-08-01 Thread Colin Paul Adams
I bought a card that said Fedora on the box. Well, i couldn't follow the install instructions (they were for FC4 but referenced a directory on the CD that didn't exist). It's a Ralink rt73, so I followed the instructions at http://fedoramobile.org/fc-wireless/rt2x00-wireless-lan-chipset (but I

Re: Wireless LAN cards for Fedora?

2008-08-01 Thread John W. Linville
On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 08:14:47PM +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote: I bought a card that said Fedora on the box. Well, i couldn't follow the install instructions (they were for FC4 but referenced a directory on the CD that didn't exist). It's a Ralink rt73, so I followed the instructions at

Re: Wireless LAN cards for Fedora?

2008-08-01 Thread Colin Paul Adams
John == John W Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John yum install rt73usb-firmware It doesn't seem to be available for FC6. -- Colin Adams Preston Lancashire -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: Wireless LAN cards for Fedora?

2008-08-01 Thread Todd Zullinger
Colin Paul Adams wrote: It doesn't seem to be available for FC6. Fedora Core 6 is not supported and hasn't been for well over a year. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LifeCycle/EOL -- ToddOpenPGP - KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp

Re: Wireless LAN cards for Fedora?

2008-07-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote: On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 06:23:10AM +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote: I want to connect an AMD64 machine (currently running 32-bit Fedora Core 6, although I might upgrade to Fedora 9 64-bit or 32-bit) to a wireless LAN. Can I just buy any cheap wireless LAN card, or are

Re: Wireless LAN cards for Fedora?

2008-07-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote: On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 06:23:10AM +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote: I want to connect an AMD64 machine (currently running 32-bit Fedora Core 6, although I might upgrade to Fedora 9 64-bit or 32-bit) to a wireless LAN. Can I just buy any cheap wireless LAN card, or are

RE: Wireless LAN cards for Fedora?

2008-07-31 Thread bruce
of 5 mins!!! good luck... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bill Davidsen Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 6:52 PM To: fedora-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: Wireless LAN cards for Fedora? Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote: On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 06:23:10AM

Re: Wireless LAN cards for Fedora?

2008-07-31 Thread Kevin Kofler
Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com writes: My Acer say: 05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 USB Controller (rev 01) Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. Unknown device e003 and that doesn't work, even loading the b43, or b43legacy, or b44 driver. So now I

Re: Wireless LAN cards for Fedora?

2008-07-26 Thread Nifty Fedora Mitch
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 06:23:10AM +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote: I want to connect an AMD64 machine (currently running 32-bit Fedora Core 6, although I might upgrade to Fedora 9 64-bit or 32-bit) to a wireless LAN. Can I just buy any cheap wireless LAN card, or are there gotchas to be aware

Re: Wireless LAN cards for Fedora?

2008-07-26 Thread Colin Paul Adams
Mitch == Nifty Fedora Mitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mitch On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 06:23:10AM +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote: I want to connect an AMD64 machine (currently running 32-bit Fedora Core 6, although I might upgrade to Fedora 9 64-bit or 32-bit) to a wireless LAN.