On Monday 03 July 2006 03:56, "Adam Moreland" <journo_bouy(a)hotmail.co.uk>
wrote:
Reading some of these posts on a server guide [Re: Updated Server Guide for
Fedora Core 5], i would like to submit, or rather enquire as to the
validity of adding a guide on wireless internet installation using
ndiswrapper, and also touch on some of the built in wireless support, such
as IPW2200...
I have written recently, and refined, a guide for Fedora Core 5, for the
installation and configuration of a wireless network using ndiswrapper,
that includes how to configure WEP/WPA/TKIP security encryption, and how to
install ndiswrapper using yum and repos, manual compiles, and from cvs.
This guide has been the culmination of extensive work, based on problmes
many many people have with wireless internet, and using ndiswrapper. In
fact most dont even know what ndiswrapper is, or what it does, let alone
how to use it. To date, i have yet to see any official fedora instructions
for this type of problem, and only scattered wiki pages that are often mish
mashed together on [1].
My wireless guide is written in HTML, and is viewable here [2] and is
detailed and split into sections, for ease of reading. If some one can have
a look over this guide. I would cleans this guide up, and re-write in the
third person, should this guide be of use as an official document. I
already have had my guide linked to a number of times by various places,
including
fedoraforum.org, and also [3] fedorazine.
[
1]http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net
[2]http://www.manix-place.co.uk/wireless.html
[
3]http://www.fedorazine.com
I feel this guide could help many more fedora users, and could do with
being made "official", given the lack of information on the web about
wireless unless you know what you are looking for, and how to use it. This
guide simplifies the mass of information into 7 sections that guide you
through preparations to installations and finally configurations, with
troubleshooting, and useful links sections. POlease feel free to comment on
this and let me know what can be done about making this official.
And further, with respect to this:
>I usually withhold my more blatant and gushing enthusiasm until such
>time as additional folks step up to help whip these documents into
>fighting shape. Looking at our contributor list[1], I see a lot of
>names that popped up for roughly five minutes on the mailing list and
>then were never seen again.
>
>Would you be interested in joining in the effort[2]? Your enthusiasm
>could be contagious if followed up with some elbow grease! :-)
>
>= = =
>[1]
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/Contributors [2]
>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject/NewWriters
i have been involved as much as i can, admittidly not as much as i had
hoped, but i actually never thought this guide, or anything else could be
of use. I have an NTFS guide on the same website (listed in my sig) should
this also be of any use, and have many more lined up, which is why i have
not been as active. However i have been trying to edit wikis in the games
sections as often as i can, and work with the docs projects. I am eager to
write more and could to with some guidance from those more experienced. I
am also not adverse to elbow grease, so i think you will enjoy the final
products i produce, under the right guidance and criticisms.
Sorry for the extensive reply, and i hope someone can help guide me, and
comment on this work??
Unfortunately, neither of these guides are suitable for inclusion by the
Fedora Documentation Project. We follow the same commitments as the rest of
the Fedora Project, which prevents the inclusion of documentation on non-free
or non-open source technologies. See the ForbiddenItems page for a few
examples of things we won't document:
This material sounds appropriate for Fedora Unity. You might consider
contacting that team.