Hello everyone
well, I installed Fedor core2 on my laptop (compaq Hp Presario 2100, xp2800 m, 2.13 Ghz). everything works fine even the touchpad i got it worked but the wireless connection doesn't work. on windows XP the brand of wirless card is broadcom does anyone have any idea what i should do...
best regards

Be sure that your wireless card is supported. If it is, you need to set up your wireless network with iwconfig (the wireless tools for linux can be found here: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_...nux/Tools.html).

If it's not supported, you can check ndiswrapper: http://ndiswrapper.sf.net. I have no experiance with it, though.

Read the documentation. Pretty much, it will go something like this:
iwconfig essid <your_network's_ssid> mode managed [or ad-hoc, if you are] key <your_key, be it 26 digit MD5 (128 bit) or 40 bit>

then bring up your internet in whichever way FC2 does it (I use debian, with me it's ifup eth1 [eth0 being my land-line ethernet card]).

Hope that helps!

Is it a PCMCIA card? Because there's a known Fedora Core 2 bug where PCMCIA is broken. Use the network configuration tool to delete all network devices and reboot. Try this a couple times, if it doesn't help, you're going to have to go into /etc/rc.d/ and edit the order that the startup scripts are executed in so that PCMCIA is started up before network. Do some googling and you'll find how to do this.