SUCCESS!!!

it works!
awsome!

but it seems that it's not as cut and dry as it used to be with editing a simple file/putting it in a certain folder, refferencing it in a system file, and then just restarting the service. it seems alot of programs need to be insync, including having to reboot and what not.

but atleast it's working.. yeay!!

thanks again.
//Santiago

Good, I'm glad you got it working. The problem with the ieee80211 kernel modules is a known problem with the 2.6.19.1 vanilla kernel which has been fixed with the 2.6.19.2 kernel.org release.

Most ATA/ATAPI interfaces and devices are now PATA devices and appear to be SCSI devices under the newer kernels (hda becomes sda and so on), something to get used to. They (the Fedora Team folks) disabled the old IDE/ATA/ATAPI configuration in the kernel in favor of the SATA/PATA configuration. It works fairly nice IMHO, but it is a bit confusing (disturbing) to see your IDE devices become SCSI devices the first time you see it.

As fas as your swap partition be /dev/hda5, yes it would be a good idea to change it to be dev/sda5 in /etc/fstab. You want to also run (as root) after making and saving the change;

/sbin/swapon -a

BTW: Windows NTFS partitions by the use of the fuse and ntfs-3g rpms can be read/write accessible under Linux also. Just [re]use the same example /etc/fstab line entries to add these NTFS partitions after installing the fuse and ntfs-3g packages if you need to. Just change the entry a bit to be something like;

To install fuse and ntfs-3g if needed/desired:
yum install fuse fuse-libs ntfs-3g

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To say that I got it to work is being much too generouse!


I'm impressed with the time and effort you put into helping me with this problem.
I will admit that at one point I was almost ready to give up.


that's cool with the ntfs-3d! I just tried it out. I'm more than impressed.


so how come you know so much about all these different details about linux?
I've looked at other threads posted by you and you seem to be 110% knolegeable on the topic of linux.


Well, again thanks a milion, and keep up the good work

//Santiago

Well, I thank you for your extremely kind assesment of my Linux skills, I do not know everything bit I am a bit beyond being a newbie. I have been Microsoft free in my home environment since 1992, first with OS/2 and with Linux full time since 1997. Believe me at one time or another I too was also ready to give up on this or that. I learned my skills by reading and asking questions in forums like this one and in the Linux newsgroups before these forums existed. Had to learn (the hardway) how to build my own custom kernels because my old IBM Thinkpad 380ED had issues with (at the time) Red Hat Linux 6.0 with pcmcia controller and wireless pcmcia interfaces.

I give back what I can, if it was not for others I would not know 10% of what I do know now. Giving back is my way of showing thanks to all that helped me in the past learn and gain knowledge.

You did get this working, you are the one that asked, took the time and effort to resolve your problem. I only assisted you along in this effort.

Welcome to Linux, enjoy!!!