New to Fedora, struggling with wireless

Rick Lim ricklim at telus.net
Thu Nov 23 22:25:23 UTC 2006


I had FC4 on my laptop, went to ubuntu 6.06, wireless worked right out of
the box, and Bluetooth mouse, tried FC6 could not get the Bluetooth and
wireless to work, now I'm back to ubuntu 6.10 and wireless and Bluetooth are
back and working.


-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Cecilia Lunardini
Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 12:43 PM
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Subject: New to Fedora, struggling with wireless

Hi,

I apologize if my question has already been addressed.
 I need a particularly detailed answer, given my low
level of expertise.

I have just installed Fedora 6 on my new laptop,  a
Sony VAIO SZ360P/C Notebook with Intel Centrino. 
While a wired internet connection works, I can not
find a way to set up a wireless connection.  

I have tried a number of things, already.  I checked
that my wireless network is working and I have no
reasons to suspect a hardware problem.
Following what I have read on various forums, I have
tried to install a wireless driver, only to get
totally lost with various other problems, like the
fact that yum and gcc seem not to work (even though I
see that both of them are installed), and others.

It is hard to believe that the matter must be so
complicated.
So, my question is: is there a step by step, guide on
how to set up the wireless?  It has to be very
detailed, because I am an absolute beginner and even
the most obvious aspects of Linux are not obvious to
me.

If such guide does not exist, and someone has the
patience to make one, I would immensely appreciate
that. 

Thank you very much! 

Cecilia
 


 
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