Re: Fedora and the EeePC networking

On Thursday 09 October 2008 14:05:08 Rex Dieter wrote:
> 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.
>
Thanks Rex.  That looks promising - at leastI can complete the configuration 
now.  However, now I've removed the network cable, I can't see any way to 
activate the wifi connection.  In view of all that's been said in the past I'm 
reluctant to using system-config-network, unless you tell me that I should do 
:-)

Anne

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