Linux

[HaRuMaN]

Any linux users out there?  I just installed Fedora Core 3 on my laptop...  I love it.  However, I seem to be having some trouble getting the wireless internet up and running.  (I am using the ethernet line rite now.)  My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite P25-S509.  Any ideas?

Thanks a bunch!

-Haruman

[daywane]

doing better then me.
I can not get my modem working.
try the software forum.
bump into Linux users every now and then there

[SirPoonga]

The best thing to do is start reading documentation (like at linux.org).

[HaRuMaN]

I can't get back into Windows, either....  argh!!!

[HaRuMaN]

Ok, got back into Windows.  For some reason, Partition Magic hid the partition XP resides in, so it wasn't seing it.  I had to go into a command prompt, type "unhide (hd0,0)" and then use GRUB to boot XP.  Very weird.  :-p

Still looking on the wireless adapter, though

[HaRuMaN]

Wow... this is experience is really teaching me a lot.

I learned how to use yum install and cvs... and now I have the wireless card working under linux!!  Sweet!! 

Anyone else out there use linux?

[paigeoliver]

Modem not working under linux has always been very, very common. I haven't used Linux in years, but back in the day you could ONLY use REAL Hardware modems. Which shipped with absolutely NOTHING. (I don't think a single new system ever shipped with a hardware modem once they invented Winmodems). I actually had  a few 56K hardware modems (several ISA ones, and an external one), but I didn't know anyone else who owned one. I eventually started chucking the good ISA ones into other people's systems I would work on (people who still USED modems, I haven't dialed up anything in like 7 years).

On a Winmodem rant. Arrrgh, I have an entire BOX of unidentifiable winmodems. Countless times I would have to work on someone's computer that was completely horked, and after the new OS install I would not be able to get the Winmodem setup. There would be like 90,000 different models of them that all had the same numbers on them, only the RIGHT driver would work (and the Manufacturers websites were useless, a given system might have one of 10 or 15 different modem drivers listed, none of which would ever work). It got to the point that when someone wanted a system redone I would tell them to bring me the system and a brand new modem in a box.

Apparently XP is better about that now, the few times I have set up XP on a system that actually had a modem, it caught it right off the bat.

[HaRuMaN]

Linux picked up my ethernet card, mouse, graphics card, and sound card right off the bat.  So I considered myself pretty lucky that only the wireless adapter was missing.  Once I understood the process, it was really easy to get that working.

I, too, used linux a long time ago.  Back in 1998, I think.  I had a version of Red Hat that someone gave me.  I remember getting so frustrated with it back then, I couldn't get anything to work right.  This time around, it has been a much more pleasant experience.  I'll probably end up ditching Windoze XP all together once I get confident enough with my linux skills.   

[daywane]

yep just my luck.
I down loaded linux that will run on a CD.
every thing worked except sound and winmodem. I got the sound going, gave up on modem.

tried it on my father in laws PC and all was working right off the bat.
he has high speed from bell south. and all he does is Email 
I swear I wish he would just use web tv. would save me a weekly visit to fix his windows 

[HaRuMaN]

Which version of Linux?

[daywane]

ME?
knopix

[HaRuMaN]

Oh ok, cool.

Screenshot:

[Captain_Dingo]

Linux user since '91.

I've gone through SLS, Slackware, Red Hat, Debian, Fedora, the bastardized Red Hat that's on the PS2, and I just installed Ubuntu the other day on two boxes.

God, I'm getting old.