Fedora and the EeePC networking

[Anne Wilson]

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?

The info on the wiki looks quite out of date, so if anyone knows a better how-
to I'd like to read that, as well.

Anne

[Rex Dieter]

Post by Anne Wilson
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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[Anne Wilson]

Post by Rex Dieter

Post by Anne Wilson
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

[Rex Dieter]

Post by Anne Wilson

Post by Rex Dieter

Post by Anne Wilson
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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[Anne Wilson]

Post by Rex Dieter

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.

I was afraid of that :-( I'll try the eeepc-user forums. Thanks

Anne

[Anne Wilson]

Post by Rex Dieter

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, in an attempt to resolve this I checked what kernels I have installed,
and found that the latest was 2.6.24-45, so I installed the kernel-devel to
match, thinking that might have been the problem. However, uname tells me
that I'm still running 2.6.25-14. Grub doesn't allow me to select a kernel in
the way a normal install does. I'm seriously wondering whether I need to wipe
this install (which started from a live CD) and do a normal disk install
instead.

Do you think that my problems may stem from trying to do something that the
live CD isn't intended to do? Since there is an install option I had assumed
that once I ran updates it would then act like any other system, but it seems
it isn't so.

Anne

[dexter]

Post by Anne Wilson

Post by Rex Dieter

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, in an attempt to resolve this I checked what kernels I have installed,
and found that the latest was 2.6.24-45, so I installed the kernel-devel to
match, thinking that might have been the problem. However, uname tells me
that I'm still running 2.6.25-14. Grub doesn't allow me to select a kernel
in the way a normal install does. I'm seriously wondering whether I need
to wipe this install (which started from a live CD) and do a normal disk
install instead.
Do you think that my problems may stem from trying to do something that the
live CD isn't intended to do? Since there is an install option I had
assumed that once I ran updates it would then act like any other system,
but it seems it isn't so.
Anne

While Rex sleeps :-) I'll jump in:

The live cd is a normal system when installed, err default settings in grub
are set to hide kernel selection. .27 kernel has the latest ath5k drivers in
F10-beta if considering a wipe, I would for wifi alone and of course 4.1.2.

...dex


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