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I'm completely new to Linux. I installed Fedora 17 from the live cd last night and now working on configuration. I searched other threads but didn't come across any answers that helped.
When I open Network Connections, the only network connection I can use is VPN. Neither Wired nor Wireless can be used. From what I've read, most network adapters should be supported, but either mine isn't or I just don't know how to configure it. I'll still be using Windows, so I booted that up to find my adapter names. They are: Atheros AR8161/8165 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.20) and Intel(R) Centrino(R) Wireless-N2200.
Can anyone help me out or give me a set of instructions to get my connections configured? It would be greatly appreciated.
And you should see the long list of devices. On my DESKTOP machine for Wired Ethernet controller it is shown below
Code:
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 Gigabit or Fast Ethernet (rev b0)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. P5KPL-CM Motherboard
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 27
Region 0: Memory at feac0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
Region 2: I/O ports at dc00 [size=128]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ATL1E
Look at last line starts with "Kernel Driver in use. It means driver is installed and in use. If your machine is not something sensible. May be need to install driver
I ran the command. Here is the output I found. I'm not sure if this helps. Does this mean I need to install the drivers? If so, can I use the Windows drivers, or is there something else I need to download elsewhere to be compatible?
i agree, please post the output of ifconfig -a as well. but if you do need to install a driver without internet access, i did a search for iwl2030-firmware in google so you can try to download it on another pc and sneakernet it to your fedora machine. the command would be:
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