Hello Guys, i am completely new to linux. i had fedora core 1 given yesterday and installed it right away with a Personal Computer configuration.

Everything went fine. My first boot fine, but it didn't recognize my WLAN 1350 and my Modem. Just my ethernet card in eth0. So I connected through the ethernet card but it wasn't working well. it didn't give me IP address. i dont know what's happening and how to manage this problem. I've already looked for my modem and Wireless drivers through the internet and found them but i saved them in my ntfs partition. how can i pull the files that i have in windows in order to use them in linux?

Thanks a lot, i hope someone can help.
Thanks again,
igo....

To get files from an NTFS partition you need that support compiled into your kernel, I'm guessing they aren't complied in yours so you would have to recompile your kernel

It would seem infinitely easier to just download them to your linux partition and work from there.

Thanks tamsco, i'll be heading to the unix department here at school and let them mess with my laptop.

GLuck

Is there any reason in particular you don't run FC2? That might be a good place to start... You shouldn't have to recompile your kernel. You can try inserting the NTFS module (it may be compiled already) or installing the appropirate NTFS RPM then 'modprobe ntfs'.

i would love to get FC2 but here at school .iso extension aren't allowed to be downloaded. Is there any place or can someone up it to any server as .zip?? the 4 cds zip or one by one??

If someone can do that id love to.

thanks
igo

For your Internal Modem on the Inspiron 1150... for kernel 2.4.x: The internal modem is a softmodem. To get it working, you need the PCTel driver.

Make sure you have the kernel sources installed.

Change the PCI ID in the PCTel driver:
#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_I845 0x24c6

For kernel 2.6.x: Starting with Linux 2.6.5 you can use the Smart Link Soft Modem (slmodem-2.9.7.tar.gz or newer) in ALSA mode (eg. slmodemd --alsa hw:0). Build the kernel with support for "Intel i8x0/MX440; AMD768/8111 modems" from the ALSA _sound_ section) and make sure you have the ALSA development libraries installed when compiling slmodem.

For the Truemobile 1350 WLAN Card: There is no native Linux driver for this card, but you can use the NdisWrapper 0.10 to use the Windows driver under Linux.

For the ethernet card: There seems to be a bug in the device driver that doesn't properly initialize the card after a warm start. The problem should be fixed in kernel 2.6.7. (Or you can manually apply this fix if you don't always want to do a cold boot.)

Hope this helps.