[NBLUG/talk] New to Linux

[Milton]

Hi Scott:

I hope I'm not being a pest; but I have not been successful at having Fedora
7 work with the Hawking HWP54G's wireless card. 
I like the looks and feel of Fedora, and for being a total newbie at Linux,
I think the installation went pretty smoothly, and love Fedora's
performance. But one thing I just can't get used to it all is the line
commands I need to learn in order to install apps. Isn't there a generic
installer out there? Maybe I'm oversimplifying things, but I'm sure someone
else has already gone through this frustrating exercise of installing even
the simplest of apps.
I thinks of something like the attached file
 

Thanks for your time.
 
Milton

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Doty [mailto:scott at ponzo.net] 
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 5:02 PM
To: General NBLUG chatter about anything Linux, answers to questions,etc.
Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] New to Linux

On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 03:06:36PM -0700, Milton Rojas wrote:
> I've managed to download and install Fedora 7 on an Intel based PC, 
> which is about two years old,

Congrats! :)

> and am in the process of setting up a Hawking (HWP54G) wireless PCI 
> card

If it is an Atheros chipset, you'll want to install the "madwifi" package
from the Livna repository -- otherwise you might need to poke around for a
solution, including using "ndiswrapper" as mentioned earlier.

You'll probably want to enable Livna anyway, as it has various things that
Red Hat doesn't want to give away because of licensing issues (such as mp3
codecs, libcss, and so forth...).  In fact, Fedora would be pretty crippled
for ordinary users, if it wasn't for Livna.  From the web site:

''rpm.livna.org provides many useful packages that can not be distributed in
Fedora (previously known as Fedora Core and Extras) for one reason or
another, including multimedia applications such as xine and VideoLanClient,
and video drivers for ATI and Nvidia cards''

   http://www.livna.org/

Share and enjoy! :)

 -Scott


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