Fedora 9 on NP8660

[Zatara214]

I know that user installs aren't supported and all, but I installed Fedora 9 on a flash drive, and everything works perfectly right off the bat except the wireless. Anyone have any idea what do do about it lol?

[Jrock15]

what kind of wireless card do you have

[Jrock15]

I did some looking for you.

Not sure where to direct you at the moment and right now my time is limited. I have a group project to go do in about 15 minutes.

Hopefully you can find something from this that will help you...

www.madwifi.org (http://www.madwifi.org) You can try this program and see where it takes you. Its a 3rd party software that will update your WLAN driver. However, I think its for an atheros chipset.

Download it and use yum to install it.

Some threads in the Fedora forums to look into...

http://forum.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=189109

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=200297&highlight=wireless

This next link is what came up from a search in their forums

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/search.php?searchid=7344278

If this doesn't work...

figure out what kind of wireless card it is.. if its atheros, plug it into an ethernet connection and run "yum install madiwifi"

if its not then figure out who made the card and google "linux cardmanufacturer driver"

Hope you can find something from this :cool:

[Zatara214]

Nope didn't work. I believe the wireless card is the Intel 5300 Shirley Peak card. I installed Fedora 10 beta, which uses a newer version of the kernel (which was said to support the Intel 5 series cards), and it detects the card, but now I can't connect to a network. Much less of a problem though. Also, the sound no longer works, where it did in Fedora 9. I'll have to do some more hunting on this. But thanks!

[Jrock15]

Try typing alsamixer in a shell to fix the sound. Try muting/unmuting the sound mixer.

For the wireless, since it's recognizing your card...

Try connecting to an open network and see if that works.

Fedora 10 is still in beta I think.

Your sound worked with fedora 9, but it wasnt recognizing your wireless card right?

[Zatara214]

Try typing alsamixer in a shell to fix the sound. Try muting/unmuting the sound mixer.

For the wireless, since it's recognizing your card...

Try connecting to an open network and see if that works.

Fedora 10 is still in beta I think.

Your sound worked with fedora 9, but it wasnt recognizing your wireless card right?

Right Fedora 10 got the wireless card up, but no networks and no sound, and Fedora 9 had sound but no wireless card.

I always keep my home network open, as I don't share anything on the network, so Fed10 can't connect to an open network.

I played around with the sound mixer a bit to no avail. I'm thinking it has something to do with me having the X-Fi Xtreme Notebook audio card, but the audio doesn't work for the Sound Blaster card or the built in Realtek chip.