On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:41:56 +0000, Hugo Pecora wrote: > I have a sony vaio laptop, the model is vgn-bx195ep, it is celeron processor...i installed fedora 6 and everything works apart from wireless and dvd, the wireless is more important! When booting, it says that "the device does not seem to be present" but it appears in my hardware list in control centre.. > Any ideas? > Thanks > > Hugo Pecora > See the exact model of your wireless card, and do a google search to see what drivers you should have for that. Run /sbin/iwconfig in a shell. If it doesn't show the wireless card, then you don't have the appropriate drivers installed or loaded.