Hi
I'm new to Linux Fedora Core 5.
I have a dell laptop D610.

- My Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200 wireless isn't working.
I need help.
Is there somewhere or someone who could point me to detailed
steps on how to install and get the wireless thing to work ?
Because my wireless is down, I have no access to internet to download
files from the Linux desktop.

- Another issue - Yum
Why am I getting this error when I type
[root@localhost ~] yum -y update
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
core [1/3]
Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core


Linux kernal version is 2.6.15-1.2054

Any help is appreciated.

Ok I am not very familiar with Fedora Core 5 but I think that I can help you solve your problem. I am

First of all since you are a newbie I guess I am going to explain some things:

first of all the reason why you cant seem to get your wireless working is because just like windows many of the drivers for the wireless cards are propietary (meaning that the wireless card companies dont want to share them with anyone else).

But dont worry about this with linux you can overcome anything.

There is a tool called Ndiswrapper. which is very easy to use.

I am going to give you some general directions that you can follow they worked for me on SUSE 9.3 and I am sure it is similar for Fedora:

1) install the rpm called "ndiswrapper" from your installation CD through YUM.

2) install the wireless tools rpm (if you dont already have them installed) through YUM.

3) go into your /tmp directory and create a folder called Windrivers

4) get your windows installation CD for the card that you have and copy two files one that has a .inf and another that has a .sys extension to the folder called Windrivers (the one you created in the /tmp directory).

5) now open a shell prompt and type: su

once you type su you are going to be prompted to type in your root password go ahead and do so (you wont see anything on the screen but dont worry that is just a security feature).

6) now I want you to type: ndiswrapper -l name of file.inf (replace name of file with the .inf file you have in your Windrivers folder.)
you will get a confirmation that the driver was installed

7)now after that is done close that shell script, open a new one and type: su
once again enter your password once prompted to do so.

8) now type: modprobe ndiswrapper

9) after that is done you are done with the shell prompt and you can close it.

10) go to YUM and open up the section that you use to configure your network cards. select configure new card (or whatever it is on YUM).

make sure you select the wireless option. leave the device name as it is.

11) In the section titled command you should type: ndiswrapper

once you do that finish that section and get out of YUM.


12) now on a shell prompt use whatever command you use to turn a wireless internet card, I think it is: ifconfig

Better yet it might be easier for you to use the applet called network manager to connect to the internet.

After this is all said and done you should be able to connect to the internet. Any one with experience using Fedora Core 5 should hopefully get on this thread should clarify somethings specific to Fedora Core 5.

If you need any more help just ask them and I will try to help you out.


ndiswrapper works great, I got my linksys wpc54 to work with it .

Finally here are is a webpage that may be of help to you:

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...etwork_Manager
(skip the making an rpm step because you dont need it.)

If you feel overwhelmed with all these steps it is just natural for newbies, but dont be intimidated you will get comfortable with using the shell prompt and other tools with the passage of time.

By the way I hope you find an answer to your other problem, I cant help you on that one.

You don't need ndiswrapper.

Instructions for installing and using the ipw2200 driver:

http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Ipw2200

Hi
I tried following the instructions from those pages but yum keeps giving me problems when I type

# yum install ipw2200-firmware
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting Up Install Process
Setting up repositories
core [1/3]
Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core

Looks like I need help to overcome yum before I could even install the firmware.

Help, Gurus!

izquierdista

Thank you for your response.
I need to overcome yum issue before I could use your suggestions.

Could gurus help me step by step here ?

Many thanks

Google must be broken, huh?

http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_cor...notes.html#Yum
http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Upg..._with_yum.html
http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware
http://blog.lobstertechnology.com/20...ore-5-yumconf/

2Gnu
Appreciate your response.
I don't have internet access since my wireless is down.

I have in /etc/yum.repos.d, files are
fedora-updates-testing.repo
fedora-updates.repo
fedora-legacy.repo
fedora-extras.repo
fedora-extras-development.repo
fedora-development.repo
fedora-core.repo

in /etc/conf

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
keepcache=0
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum/log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1
metadata_expire=1800

#PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN seperate files named file.repo
#in /etc/yum.repos.d


What lines exactly should I add to this file ?
It's unclear to me. One of the web site points to adding lines

[atrpms]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms
baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/fc$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable

[freshrpms]
name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - freshrpms
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms

but I'm not sure they are the right ones since I downloaded
ipw2002 and not ATMrpms or freshrpms.

Do I make sense here ?




I added those lines mentioned above, reboot and I still get errors
saying

[root@localhost ~] yum -y update
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
atrpms
http://dl.atrpms.net/fc5-i386/atrpms...ta/repomd.xml: [Error 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name resolution')>
Trying other mirror.
Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: atrpms
failure: repodata/repomd.xml from atrpms: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
core [1/3]
Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core
Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core

Could someone help ?


When I click on Fedora GUI
Applications->Add/Remove Software menu, a Package Manager window shows
up with Error saying Unable to retrieve software information. Once
I click ok, the Package Manager Window disappears.
Is this a related problem to the above issue of my laptop wireless network isn't configured yet ?

What do I do now ?

You can't use Yum to get a package without Internet access, no. That's how it works. They don't magically beam down.

Run a wire or grab the RPMs needed on a Windows PC and burn them to a CD or USB drive.

Ok.
Which rpms and what to type with rpms to install ?
What sites do I go to and get the rpms ?
Any detailed instructions there ?

What actual rpms I need to download to copy in CD ?
I downloaded
ipw2200-1.2.0-45.1.fc5.at.i386.rpm
ipw2200-firmware-2.4.8.at.noarch.rpm
ieee80211-1.2.15.tar
ipw2200-fw-2.4.gz
ipw2200-1.2.0.gz

but I don't know which one to use or if I still miss anymore files.
Please offer detailed instructions on how to use rpms to install.



Thanks for your patience

The .tar and .gz files are source and I assume you're not ready to compile yet. Look for rpm files. This repo seems to be fairly complete: http://dl.atrpms.net/fc5-i386/atrpms/stable/

You'll need the ipw2200 package, kernel module to match your kernel and architecture, ieee80211 subsystem and firmware. Some of those things may already be on the FC5 CDs - I don't know what they do or don't include.

There are several firmware versions in that repo. Check the ipw2200 docs to make sure you get the right one.

Run the command uname -a to see what you have, and the get the ipw2100-kmdl-2.blah-blah.rpm that matches what you are running.

Same process for the ieee80211 module.

Get the ipw2200 and ieee80211 base rpms

Install (but again, only if they aren't already).

Follow the SourceForge instructions to start the daemon, modprobe the driver and us iwconfig to set the wireless parameters.

Here is a site that will make the search for RPM's easier for you:

http://rpm.pbone.net/

I recommend that you just type the name of the rpm that you need in the search box and then the RPM's will come out for each distro. just download the ones that you need for yours.

>Run the command uname -a to see what you have, and the get the ipw2100-kmdl-2.blah-blah.rpm that matches what you are running.

>>
izquierdista, 2Gnu

I have Linux kernal version is 2.6.15-1.2054
but I couldnt find at sites

http://dl.atrpms.net/fc5-i386/atrpms/stable/
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3


a rpm
ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.15-1.2054.fc5-1.2.0-45.1.fc5.at.i686.rpm
or any rpm that has pattern similar to this
ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.15-1.2054.fc5-blah.blah.blah-blah.blah.fc5.at.i686.rpm

Can I use other ones they have there even though the kernal module
version is different ?

No, you'll get breakage by doing that.

Here's what has happened. FC5 has seen updates, including to the kernel. All of the repositories have updated the packages as well. I looked a bit (not exhaustively) and the only kernel modules at Atrpms.net or elsewhere were for more recent kernels. In fact, FC5 has been superseded by a completely new distro - FC6.

Is there no way to connect with a wire, even temporarily? That way, you could solve several problems at once. If not, update your kernel by getting one of the recent kernel RPMs - 2.6.19-1.2288 seems to be the latest. Here's a top-level directory view for easier browsing of packages: http://atrpms.net/dist/fc5/

I went to
http://atrpms.net/dist/fc5/
to look for kernel for 32 bit. My laptop is dell 610 32 bit machine
Where else can I find an rpm for 32 bit ?
I also need help with step-by-step instructions to install this rpm.

Which rpm can I use ? I'm afriad of installing the wrong rpm for 64 bit target. There are other acroymns I don't know what they mean like suspend2, cubbi, smp, etc ?
Which should I download to match ip2200

ipw2200-kmdl-2.6.19-1.2288.2.4.fc5xen-1.2.0-45.1.fc5.at.i686.rpm




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The Fedora documentation is excellent. Give it a read. I'm not going to hand-hold through installing an rpm. Sorry.