I'm running Fedora Core 3, kernel-2.6.10-1.741. The notebook is a Travelmate 4500 series, a 4501WLMi to be exact. Everything is working beautiful except for my 802.11b/g adapter. It installed after upgrading the kernel, but the problem seems to be the fact the unit uses a software based hotkey to enable the wireless (the same issue happens within Windows if their awful hotkey software is not installed.) The adapter itself is an Intel 2200bg, and it did find and install the drivers after the first boot into the new kernel. But without being able to enable it, it shows up as not present if I try to use it.

I've done a lot of searching for hotkey drivers, and have found a few different ones, but none of them support this model (and I did try.) I have no problem even forcing wireless on all the time if necessary, I never turn it off anyways (this is a notebook I use for work, and all my locations except for one have wireless.)

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm actually trying to switch myself back to using Linux exclusively for work, and 95% at home (still a bit of a gamer at heart, and want a super simple XP install for just that.) It's been some time since I've had a chance to really use Linux, and I'm quite amazed at the strides that it's made. Already have all my Windows users switched to Firefox, next step is Linux (probably something CD based so if they do screw it up, who cares.)

Thanks in advance.

A) do you have the firmware installed???
B) http://www.fedoranews.org/contributo...ecurewireless/

C) do you have NetworkManager & NetworkManager-Gnome installed? these 2 tools work great for auto-connecting to wireless or wired connections.

Sorry about the how long it's taking me to respond. I'm pretty sure the wireless is working okay, it found and installed it after I upgraded the kernel. But the special keys won't function so I can't actually enable the device. I found a script for the 4001 series and tried that, and now the wireless button creates a ~. Not what I really want it to do, but it's more than it did before! Just need some way to get the special keys to work. The script I tried was located at http://www.squirrel.nl/people/jvroma.../acerkeys.html and I'm wondering if I can modify it to work with the 4501.
Thanks so much.

you can try hacking the file from that person, or you can try metacity in gnome
metacity is the linux equalivlant to the windows registry read up on metacity before you strat hacking away