USB Portable Wifi setup

[Chris Capesius]

-----Original Message-----
From: laptop-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:laptop-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Brian Morrison
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 11:51 AM
To: laptop at lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: Re: USB Portable Wifi setup

On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 11:09:18 -0700
"Chris Capesius" <capesius at cox.net> wrote:

> No, I was never able to get the Intel built-in wireless working, which 
> is why I gave up and thought a USB Wifi would solve the problem, yet 
> here I am again.  I downloaded the driver for the Intel, but it 
> wouldn't open, because I didn't have the software for it to read the 
> driver to open it.  In Windows you download the driver and open it and 
> it works..Linux (for me anyway)..not so easy

Having looked at your previous description of the yum update command not being able to identify the Fedora repository I think you either have a major problem with your installation or you are trying to perform these updates when you are not the root user and are thus unprivileged. You won't be able to install packages unless are root, and any package you download which is something.rpm needs to be installed using rpm or using yum. Naturally you need internet connectivity to do this

Can you tell us what the contents of the .repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d are? In particular the fedora.repo and fedora-updates.repo files.

The error you were seeing with the missing metalink can happen if yum cannot connect to any mirrors, you may need to comment out the mirrors line and uncomment the baseurl lines.

And can you run:

rpm -qa | grep release

and provide the output.

This is fixable, but you need to get to the point where the updating process will work or you will be unable to get the packages you need installed.

-- 

Brian Morrison
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Here are my results:

/etc/yum.repos.d

Output:
Fedora.repo
Fedora-updates.repo
Fedora-updates-testing.repo

rpm -qa | grep release

Output: fedora-release-notes-17.0.1-1.fe17.noarch
Fedora-release-17-1.noarch

Chris




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