Re: Fedora and the EeePC networking

Rex Dieter <[email protected]> Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:05:08 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kde.redhat.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Anne Wilson wrote:
> My EeePC hasn't been used since my last holiday, so today did a huge update 
> from the new-key servers.  At the end of it, networking needed to be set up 
> again.  I never had wireless working under Fedora, but I know others do, and 
> this is now quite important to me, as I shall be moving around for a couple of 
> weeks.
> 
> This is an original EeePC 701.  I thought that I had read that I need ath5k 
> for driver, but I can't find that on the repos.  Can someone please advise me 
> as to which package I actually need, and, if necessary, where to find it?

I *think* the madwifi driver/pkgs from livna (or rpmfusion) should help 
there.

-- Rex

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