Re: Fedora and the EeePC networking

Anne Wilson wrote:
> 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.

If the driver is working properly, then nm-applet (NetworkManager 
applet) thingy should show available access points, and such.

-- Rex

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