Hardware installation

Jaguarxkr8 · 03-18-2006, 10:21 AM

hi all ,

i have just installed fedora core 4 , and i dont know how to get my wireless network card working , the system cant see it .. how can i install it !!

another issue , its the sound card , the system can see my creative sound card but the sound is not working

please help guys

peter_89 · 03-18-2006, 10:46 AM

I've never used it, and I'm not even on a broadband connection right now, but I do know that for wireless cards NdisWrapper is what's recommended. From what I understand it lets you run Windows wireless drivers on Linux. Look into that; that's really about all I can say right now.

okmyx · 03-18-2006, 11:23 AM

Soundcard - Check the volume levels with alsaconf (i think thats the program name) from a console window

Wireless card - I suppose it depends on what type of card,

pci type - use 'lspci' to see if it lists the card
pcmcia type - use 'cardctl ident'

You could also check 'dmesg' output to see if it detects the card but is unable to assign a driver to it.