To Brian Morrison and Steven F. LeBrun,<br><br>Steven F. LeBrun, I appreciate your suggestions. I hope what I tell Brian below, is in keeping with what you suggest. Your quote:<br>"There are 10 types of people in this world, those that understand binary and those who don't." <br>
with it's quirky humor, is great! I have a mathematics degree from the University of California. I am familiar with binary,octal,decimal and hexadecimal number bases.<br><br>Brian, you are correct, I should have subscribed to the Fedora NetworkManager list, instead of the laptop list. My mistake! I will probably subscribe to that list tomorrow and document my wireless problem.<br>
<br>I went to 'System -> Administration -> Add/Remove Software' and hopefully downloaded<br>'Firmware for Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG'<br><br>I have never used the 'Add/Remove Software' administrative tool before, so I did not what to expect. I am not sure I downloaded the driver to my computer. <br>
<br>This was my last message on the '/var/log/messages' you told me to check.<br>'Jul 26 12:49:07 localhost yum: Installed: iwl3945-firmware-15.32.2.9-1.fc11.noarch'<br><br>Immediately after reading that message, I went to 'System -> Administration -> Network', but when under the 'Devices' tab, when I clicked on the 'wlan1' entry, the 'Activate' , on the menu bar above, was grayed out. I could find no way to activate 'wlan1', which had my Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG card.<br>
<br>Any further suggestions or comments? I definitely appreciate the help that both of you have given me so far.<br><br>Derek Starr<br><br><br><br>