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anyway, i thought i would give it a try (I am a programmer), and i got everything working except my wireless net card.
I went thru the net configurator, and got totally lost. Ive checked this site, and it appears a couple of people have gotten it to work. So there must be someway, i just dont understand what they did!
I could REALLY use step by step instructions, im sure there are others like me who could use it too.
I also thought there might be away to just manually configure it. I have fedora on a dual boot machine win2K and fedora, on the win2k side, the wireless netcard has the following stats:
but no-where is it documented what the network configurator is looking for!
(IE: it askes for IO, IO1, IO2, MEM) but what goes in these?
option 3 is, what wireless card can i just BUY and have it work! (like just plug it in and go)
I seem to do this linux thing every release, the problem has been in the past is i still needed windows for some stuff, but from what ive seen, this fedora2 looks GREAT, im really excited to try it out, but i cant without internet!
you can always get Ndiswrapper.
Ndiswrapper is a program that allows you use Windows wireless driver while running linux. There is better documentation on it on the web. Just google it.
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