<snip> I plugged in a wired ethernet card and found that it worked fine. Initial attempts to get any of the wireless cards I have lying around to work were fruitless. I've got two "modern" 802.11 cards, one of which has the TI ACX 111 chipset, the other has the Atheros AR5212. Picking the latter it seems that I want the madwifi package which I don't have.
</snip> I don't know about fedora, but under most linux distros, the madwifi source should compile nicely against the current running kernel. In most cases it is suggested that you use the current source from cvs. This of course assumes a couple of options are available from the running kernel and the source code or headers of the current kernel are installed. See the Madwifi FAQ for more details: http://www.mattfoster.clara.co.uk/madwifi-faq.htm In a nutshell: as root, # mkdir madwifi # cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/madwifi co madwifi #cd madwifi # COPTS="$COPTS -DSOFTLED" make -j2 *or* # make * the first make option will enable the wireless dashboard light on a thinkpad (potentially other laptops as well) # make install At that point you should simply be a depmod -a and a modprobe ath_pci away from wireless. Hope this is helpful. there may very well be a precompiled kernel module for the fedora kernel you are using, so check the package tree first... I don't really have the time to elaborate as i have a friend whose car is in distress on the side of the road. But would be happy to try and help when I return. Paul -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
