Help getting WiFi working on laptop
Steve Johnson
steve at parisgroup.net
Fri Jun 18 15:38:19 UTC 2010
Rockin!!! Thanks so much Terry! This was indeed my answer. I'm WAPin'!
Have fun!
PS: I'm Blown Away by how quickly I got multiple solutions to my problem.
We're talking less than 30 minutes! The Linux and Fedora communities
ROCK!!!
-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org
[mailto:users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Terry Polzin
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 8:26 AM
To: Community support for Fedora users
Subject: Re: Help getting WiFi working on laptop
On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 11:20 -0400, Terry Polzin wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 10:13 -0500, Dale J. Chatham wrote:
> > I cannot remember the package, but there is a package that will let
> > you run Windows drivers under Linux. I had to do that to get a
> > wireless card working on an Ubuntu machine (get EMC (www.linuxcnc.org)
> > or something better working on Fedora and we'll talk).
> >
> > If you can't dredge it up, I'll try to find the name of the package,
> > but I suspect we're about to see a dozen posts with it :)
> ndiswrapper is NOT the way to go if the device is supported by the
> kernel.
>
As of early June it appears that Intel has released frimware to make the
card work in linux.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1424177
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