[NBLUG/talk] New to Linux

[Milton]

Hi Walter:
Thanks for your input. I appreciate it. I will look into downloading Debian
and install it on the troubled computer and see if I can get the wireless
card to work.

Sincerely,
 
Milton
Tel. 925-768-2221

Dressed To Sell

-----Original Message-----
From: Walter Hansen [mailto:gandalf at sonic.net] 
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 11:47 PM
To: General NBLUG chatter about anything Linux, answers to questions,etc.
Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] New to Linux

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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