wireless internet problem and DVD drive problem
Hello, this is my first post so I will explain what I have really quick and why.
I have a Toshiba M-35x s-309 laptop with a 1.4 GHZ pentium m processer, 768 MB RAM, a 60 GB HDD, Toshiba Super multi-drive (cd/dvd-rw).
I created a dual boot system so that I could still use windows while learning Linux. I am using Fedora Core 5, mainly because the school I will be attending uses this distro and I would like to know it before I attend.
My problem(s) is this;
My wireless works fine at home, I am able to connect to my encrypted wireless network and surf the net and do stuff like I am right now. However, when I go to my friends store with an open wireless network, I can connect to the network, but I can't do anything online. Just to test, I go into windows and I am able to connect and go online, so his wireless network and internet are both working fine. Why is this? I see his network, and a few others, and I can connect to it, but I can't actually "use" it.
I also have a concern about my DVD drive. If I put a disc in, it continually runs. I can feel the heat and even the spinning of the drive. The heat after say a night of sitting on my desk and going back to it in the morning. Why is this? I know in Windows that after initally reading the disc, it goes into a sort of standby mode where it is no longer running until you try to use it in some way. Why not here?
Thank you for your time.
-Tim
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