Thanks for your response. Wow. Even easier than the method I got via Jerry's link. I'll keep that in mind for next time. Thanks all!!! S -----Original Message----- From: users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John W. Linville Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 8:36 AM To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: Help getting WiFi working on laptop On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:26:07AM -0400, Terry Polzin wrote: > 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 yum install iwl6050-firmware Hth! John -- John W. Linville The truth will set you free, but first it will linville@xxxxxxxxxx make you miserable. -- James A. Garfield -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
