Salutations everyone.

I've been playing around on a Dell E1705 Laptop and recently set up a dual boot config between Windows Media Center Edition and Fedora Core 6. After a little bit I sortta realized that wireless wasn't working, and found out dell's 1390 wireless is based off the broadcom chipset. Fortunately, I also heard about ndiswrapper and decided to give that the best shot I could. Through sheer luck or whatever the hell it was, I got my wireless up and running through ndiswrapper.

..'Course I couldn't leave well enough alone.. I wanted beryl, too. Jiggly windows in all their glory.

So I had to install the latest Nvidia Linux drivers in order to do that. Then of course things have gone downhill from there. I got beryl installed and working on KDE, but after a little while, wireless just stops working all together. No ping, no signal, no nothing. still configured, still has an IP address, can ping the local IP address and loopback, but I can hit nothing else. The access point is still fine (tested on another windows system)and a few times the system has just crapped itself and froze entirely, no mouse, no keyboard response, nothing. Rebooting was the only remedy I had there.

Before the question gets asked, yes I've updated my installation to hell and back and I've installed the kernel-development packages they're required in order to install the NVIDIA drivers.. The only thing I can think of is that I didn't install xgl, I thought that might be a dependency, and that yum would resolve that. Does anyone think that can be the issue? If not, I know I don't have any really technical information on this post, however if it's requested, I can give outputs to any command required. Thanks in advance.

I somehow get the feeling you installed nvidia drivers from nvidia's site and not Fedora's (livna). I have Fedora 64 bit and could not get those drivers to work at all, but with command:

yum install kmod-nvidia

I have great graphics. Also, the ndiswrapper thing, there has been cases in the past with similar problems that were derived from IRQ conflicts. Moving the pci cards into different slots did the trick, this is not an option for you though.

EDIT: I just installed Mandrake 10.2 a couple days ago in my Dell XPS Gen 2 lappy and the graphics are pretty tardy but I won't put the nvidia drivers from nvidia's site as I did that to my Mandrake 10.2 installation on my Dell XPS Gen 5 desktop and Mandrake freezes up now, it was my most solid consistant distribution till I put those drivers to it.

hm.. I think perhaps I should reinstall the nvidia drivers perhaps from the livna yum repository.. But before I do that, how do I uninstall the current nvidia drivers? anyone got a link to a step by step guide or directions on how to do it? and does anyone know for sure if xgl is a required install for beryl or if it's a dependency that's installed when beryl is? Anymore input would be welcome, thanks for the reply thus far