[NBLUG/talk] New to Linux

[Walter Hansen]

Myself I love the debian apt-get, but the redhat/mandrake rpms are very 
nice also. But then the more I go, the more I think that I'd like to 
install all the important things as source installs.

Milton wrote:
> 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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