[NBLUG/talk] New to Linux

[Milton Rojas]

Thanks for your help.
Another problem I'm facing is how to correctly uncompress .tar.gz files such
that they can be installed, if they need to do so.
Any suggestions?
 
Milton

-----Original Message-----
From: Jippen [mailto:cheetahmorph at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 3:16 PM
To: General NBLUG chatter about anything Linux, answers to questions,etc.
Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] New to Linux

Wireless support in linux is a little annoying.
You'll most likely need to use a program called 'ndiswrapper' to load the
windows drivers.
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/
is thier website

On 10/26/07, Milton Rojas <rojas at astound.net> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I'm new at Linux and Unix for that matter, and come from the MS 
> Windows world hoping to find a more stable platform, and save money by 
> using free software. I'm not a technical person, but I'm not totally 
> computer illiterate. I've managed to download and install Fedora 7 on 
> an Intel based PC, which is about two years old, and am in the process 
> of setting up a Hawking (HWP54G) wireless PCI card and an HP5P printer 
> connected to a parallel port. Both of these components worked fine 
> under Windows XP. I reformatted the hard drive when Fedora was installed.
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> I'm having problems installing the wireless card driver because there 
> is not one listed in the list of adapters. Is there a generic wireless 
> card driver anyone knows about?
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> Additionally, in trying to install the HP5P printer, after going 
> through all the Add Printer wizard motions, when I get to the point of 
> testing the printer, and after creating one, and the only, user ID, I 
> get the following error message: "Authentication failed". I click on 
> Retry, enter the valid password, but continue to get the failure message.
Any clues?
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> Sincerely,
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> Milton
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