Install Updates
Now your FC10 is up and running, you will need an ethernet connection at the start just to run the initial updates. We will install your wireless card drivers soon. So, simply open up your Terminal.
[carl@wind ~]$ su Password: [root@wind carl]#
Now that you are root, install some nifty yum repositories for your OS updates.
Livna
This is a very good repo to have, usually a lot of fixes, updates and extras can be found at Livna. To install it type:
rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release.rpm
RPM Fusion
Another very good repo here with a lot of extras, this is a very popular repo for Fedora and RedHat derivatives in general, installation below:
rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
So now you have some nice repositories added to your system, you can begin the upgrade, but just before that, you can take a look to see where the repo’s are and how to enable/disable them. This is important as sometimes a repo may be unavailable and will cause yum to fail on you..
cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ls -la
This will show you a list of all your yum repositories. You can edit the files and check for the enabled=1 or enabled=0 to see if it is active or not, this is what you need to change to enable/disable the repo if it is giving you problems.
There are many kinds of repos you can install, however it is wise to ommit rawhide and testing repos and their packages tend to be quite unstable. For the sake of this update, enable:
fedora.repofedora-updates.repo
livna.repo
rpmfusion-free.repo
rpmfusion-free-updates.repo
Running yum
simply,
yum update
This will take a while so go do something while it downloads and installs the updates, note that it is likely that your kernel will be updated too.
I’m working on a similar project win a MSI U100, instead installing CentOS. I was able to get a successful (bootable) installation but had a problem that the NIC was marginal. Sometimes requiring several cold boots to work properly. I’m installing from a USB DVD drive instead of a usb thumb drive
Have you had any problem with the builtin network card?
If by NIC you mean the ethernet and not wireless, then no that worked out of the box. Check what version of NetworkManger you have. As for the wireless card, see above, it worked after adding the rpmfusion repo’s and installing the ralink driver. You may have a different version, I have:
kmod-rt2860.i686 1.8.0.0-3.fc10.3
good guide, however for the wireless part the “./ncdiag” and “./installNC.sh” are outdated stupid scripts and a bit confusing for beginners as they require you to pass the correct parameters to install the ncsvc. Alternatively you can do this as your final step:
cd ~/.juniper_networks/network_connect/
sudo install -m 6711 -o root ../tmp/ncsvc ncsvc
Regards
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Joannah
http://linuxmemory.net
Hey,
I had mine working without any of this for a while. It was done just using firefox. Then, my profile got corrupted and I had to create a new profile. Ever since, it hasn’t worked. I can’t figure out why.
I used to open up firefox, and then go to the network connect site, and it’d ask me for root password. I entered it, and it worked fine. I may have remembered playing around with allowing javascript to allow window resizing or something like that.
I get:
Insufficiant number of parameters
./installNC.sh
for ./installNC.sh
I also get:
install: cannot stat `../tmp/ncsvc’: No such file or directory
when I try sudo install -m 6711 -o root ../tmp/ncsvc ncsvc
Where is the tmp supposed to be? What’s it trying to access and where?
Any ideas on how to just get it working normally with firefox? I’m going to keep trying over the next couple of days and will post up on here if I find something
ps. I’m using Kubuntu
@Keerthi
Sorry for the awefully late reply. It seems that you do not actually need to run the install at all. Just making sure your Linux install is not using OpenJDK and has the latest J2SE is enough, the browser can do the rest.