I have successfully installed fedora on some of my collegues laptops. However, the wireless devices on those laptops could not work. In fact I could not configure wireless on the machines most hp, acer and dell. Is it that fedora does not have wireless drivers for these laptops. if it has, then someone should help me out with the configuration of wireless network connections.
On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 05:21 -0700, Samuel Teyemensah wrote:
I have successfully installed fedora on some of my collegues laptops. However, the wireless devices on those laptops could not work. In fact I could not configure wireless on the machines most hp, acer and dell. Is it that fedora does not have wireless drivers for these laptops. if it has, then someone should help me out with the configuration of wireless network connections.
You may want to try a more appropriate list such as: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Regards, Pierre
On 30/06/09 13:21, Samuel Teyemensah wrote:
I have successfully installed fedora on some of my collegues laptops. However, the wireless devices on those laptops could not work. In fact I could not configure wireless on the machines most hp, acer and dell. Is it that fedora does not have wireless drivers for these laptops. if it has, then someone should help me out with the configuration of wireless network connections.
Hi Samuel
Check the correct lists for greater help:
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-laptop-list
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Even us Ambassadors have to seek help, from more qualified members\users.
Frank
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Samuel Teyemensah tymensk@yahoo.comwrote:
I have successfully installed fedora on some of my collegues laptops. However, the wireless devices on those laptops could not work. In fact I could not configure wireless on the machines most hp, acer and dell. Is it that fedora does not have wireless drivers for these laptops. if it has, then someone should help me out with the configuration of wireless network connections.
Hello Samuel... without the details on the wireless cards present on the laptops, it would be tough to answer your queries on any of the lists especially one meant for ambassadors. The drivers for atheros,intel, broadcom and ralink devices etc is available....Pls check your system config regarding the type of card and also read the archives of the linux-wireless mailing lists...
Yea I know exactly what he is talking about. We had this same problem at school...(using Ubuntu) Ours were recognizing the cards, but not turning them on. It just flat out refused. I found a few questions but no answers on any Linux forums. I think what we ended up doing was using external Wireless NIC's and it seemed to work, although at times it got spotty. On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Mohamed Imran K R <mohamedimran.kr@ gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Samuel Teyemensah tymensk@yahoo.comwrote:
I have successfully installed fedora on some of my collegues laptops. However, the wireless devices on those laptops could not work. In fact I could not configure wireless on the machines most hp, acer and dell. Is it that fedora does not have wireless drivers for these laptops. if it has, then someone should help me out with the configuration of wireless network connections.
Hello Samuel... without the details on the wireless cards present on the laptops, it would be tough to answer your queries on any of the lists especially one meant for ambassadors. The drivers for atheros,intel, broadcom and ralink devices etc is available....Pls check your system config regarding the type of card and also read the archives of the linux-wireless mailing lists...
-- Regards Mohamed Imran K R
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Do you happen to know what wireless card the machines have in them?
Christopher Fikes
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Samuel Teyemensah tymensk@yahoo.comwrote:
I have successfully installed fedora on some of my collegues laptops. However, the wireless devices on those laptops could not work. In fact I could not configure wireless on the machines most hp, acer and dell. Is it that fedora does not have wireless drivers for these laptops. if it has, then someone should help me out with the configuration of wireless network connections.
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Type 'lspci', this should tell you what wireless card is installed in the machine. Then install the Yum configuration files for rpmfusion.org ( http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration). They should have the necessary kernel modules for the wireless cards.
Jason Brown - RHCE, Security+, Linux+ Systems Administrator Enterprise Technology Services Ferris State University (231) 591-2687
Christopher Fikes cfikes@fedoraproject.org Sent by: fedora-ambassadors-list-bounces@redhat.com 06/30/2009 11:44 AM Please respond to cfikes@fedoraproject.org; Please respond to fedora-ambassadors-list@redhat.com
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Subject Re: [Ambassadors] wireless fedora
Do you happen to know what wireless card the machines have in them?
Christopher Fikes
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Samuel Teyemensah tymensk@yahoo.com wrote: I have successfully installed fedora on some of my collegues laptops. However, the wireless devices on those laptops could not work. In fact I could not configure wireless on the machines most hp, acer and dell. Is it that fedora does not have wireless drivers for these laptops. if it has, then someone should help me out with the configuration of wireless network connections.
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