Wireless
Now that Fc10 is installed and updated to the latest version possible, you will quickly notice that wireless networking is not enabled on your netbook, which sorta sucks because a netbook without the net is pretty much a book, and thats pretty useless in this day and age. The RPM fusion repos we added earlier have the answer and so you simply need to install the wireless card drivers:
yum install kmod-rt2860
Then reboot and you will notice that your NetworkManager now has an ‘Enable Wireless’ option next to it. For most of you, this will be the end of the tute, however I will go into some specific fixes I had to do to get everything I wanted working…
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good guide, however for the wireless part the “./ncdiag” and “./installNC.sh” are outdated stupid scripts and a bit confusing for beginners as they require you to pass the correct parameters to install the ncsvc.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.