Getting Wireless Work in Fedora

Peter Boy pboy at barkhof.uni-bremen.de
Mon Jul 12 07:54:51 UTC 2004


Am Mo, den 12.07.2004 schrieb vlad i. um 07:31:
> Could someone explain to me how to update drivers on Linux?  I'm
> particularily interested in updating the driver on my Thinkpad R31
> 802.11b card (built-in). With the existing driver (orinoco.pci), I
> cannot activate the card when use a GUI to activate.

The orinoco driver is part of the kernel distributed by Fedora. It might
not be a good idea to update it independently from the kernel. And I
suppose your problem is not one which might get fixed merely by a newer
version.

>  When I tried to iwconfig it, I got an error message saying that the
> "Device/resource is busy"...

Did the driver ever worked? And what happened before it refused to work?






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