Cecilia Lunardini wrote: > I copy it at the end of this message. In it, I see a > relevant piece of information: "Intel Corporation > PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection" There's the rub. The driver for the 3945 isn't in the kernel yet. There are a few ways to go about getting it installed. I've been using the packages from ATrpms for a while now and I'll try to briefly describe how to install the needed pieces. You mentioned that you had someone do the install for you, perhaps you could ply them with chocolate, liquor, or some combination thereof to help out. :) 0) Open a terminal and become root (su - or sudo -i) 1) Setup the ATrpms repo (excerpted from atrpms.net/install.html) Put the following text into /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo: [atrpms] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/fc$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable gpgkey=http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms gpgcheck=1 enabled=0 2) Install the driver kernel module and firmware yum --enablerepo atrpms install ipw3945 This should install the ipw3945 package and several dependencies, ieee80211-kmdl, ipw3945-kmdl, ipw3945-ucode, and ipw3945d. 3) Setup the regulatory daemon Save http://svn.rpmforge.net/svn/trunk/rpms/ipw3945d/ipw3945d.init as /etc/init.d/ipw3945 and set its ownership and permissions properly. (watch for line wrapping in your mail program with the following commands.) wget -O /etc/init.d/ipw3945 http://svn.rpmforge.net/svn/trunk/rpms/ipw3945d/ipw3945d.init chown root. /etc/init.d/ipw3945 chmod 755 /etc/init.d/ipw3945 Setup the service so it will start and stop at the proper times chkconfig --add ipw3945 4) Reboot to test that the driver gets loaded and the regulatory daemon is started. I'm using this card with FC6 and NetworkManager and it works quite well for me. Hopefully once you get over this initial hurdle, you'll enjoy playing with and using Fedora too. Hope this helps and hope I've not made any typos or missed important steps... -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ====================================================================== Whenever 'A' attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon 'B', 'A' is most likely a scoundrel. -- H. L. Mencken
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