Killean Posted January 4, 2007 Report Posted January 4, 2007 Should have done more research on Fedora and IPW. Fedora Core 6 IPW2200 :) Try following this guide, if you have any questions regarding a step I will try to explain as best I can. Quote
Annoying Twit Posted January 7, 2007 Report Posted January 7, 2007 Should have done more research on Fedora and IPW.Fedora Core 6 IPW2200[/url] :phones: Try following this guide, if you have any questions regarding a step I will try to explain as best I can. For what it's worth, my opinion is that wireless networking is still a bit tricky on linux. If I was the original poster, then I would go back and research which distributions support this wireless card by default, rather than trying to recompile the operating system, which is perhaps a little bit too advanced for a linux newbie. Again, if I were the original poster, I would go to sites such as "www dot linuxquestions dot org" (I can't post links yet), list his/her knowledge level and hardware (including sound and graphics cards), mention the wireless networking (including the information already posted here), and ask which modern linux distributions will best fit his/her requirements and hardware. Not that I mean to offend the people making useful and knowledgeable posts in this thread. But on a specialist linux board there are likely to be many more (people with a sum total) wider range of experience of linux than here. When I first started using Linux I was lucky that standard (redhat 8) distributions made all the hardware I needed to use work sufficiently for what I needed to do. If I'd had a major sticking point concerning necessary hardware, I don't know if I would have continued with Linux. Quote
sanctus Posted January 7, 2007 Author Report Posted January 7, 2007 Now I tried out this guide but there seems to be a problem with the yum comand, it say something like "impossible to retrieve mirror site http://mirrors.redhat(...)" so actually I need already a connection to run the yum comand? If yes tomorrow I go by a cable, I used to have one but I gave it away as I thought that I won't need it anymore.... Quote
Killean Posted January 7, 2007 Report Posted January 7, 2007 Yeah, *scratches head* Yum requires the net. Try skipping all the yum commands. Skim through the guide and whenever it says Download blah from wherever, download those packages in windows and up to the share folder, then follow the guide. I wish ye luck. Quote
Annoying Twit Posted January 7, 2007 Report Posted January 7, 2007 Now I tried out this guide but there seems to be a problem with the yum comand, it say something like "impossible to retrieve mirror site http mirrors.redhat(...)" so actually I need already a connection to run the yum comand? If yes tomorrow I go by a cable, I used to have one but I gave it away as I thought that I won't need it anymore.... Yes, you have to be online to run yum. Unless you do very complex stuff. Yum makes downloading and installing software much easier, as it does it all for you. There are sites on the internet that list available linux software, and the yum program connects to them, and allows you to install this software with a single click. But of course it needs to connect to these sites ("repositories") to know what's there. Once you have YUM up and running, it really does make it very much easier to install software on Linux. The problem with installing software on Linux in "the bad old days" is that you'd try to install some piece of software, and it would come back and tell you that you can't install that software until you install some library or so. So you go and try to install the library, and that tells you that you need to install some library. It could often get really really difficult to install the software. When you ask yum to install software, it looks to see what libraries the software needs, and whether you have them installed. Then, if you need to install some, it downloads them for you automatically. Learning to use yum, and eventually how to manage which repositories you will use, will really pay dividends in the long run. Can you borrow a cable? Quote
sanctus Posted January 7, 2007 Author Report Posted January 7, 2007 About the cable, no I just go buying one...if I remember well they are not all too expensive. I agree that it might be quicker the way you suggested, but there are two main advantages staying here:1)I know most of the people...2)instead of having the solution right away I've to learn and so far I can say that in two weeks I learned already quite much... Quote
sanctus Posted January 7, 2007 Author Report Posted January 7, 2007 And by the way welcome to the forums :shrug: Quote
Annoying Twit Posted January 7, 2007 Report Posted January 7, 2007 About the cable, no I just go buying one...if I remember well they are not all too expensive. I agree that it might be quicker the way you suggested, but there are two main advantages staying here:1)I know most of the people...2)instead of having the solution right away I've to learn and so far I can say that in two weeks I learned already quite much... I'd strongly agree that fixing the problems, perhaps "the hard way" will give benefits in the long run. Generally now I can usually fix weird problems that occur when I fiddle with my linux system too much. It's very frustrating on windows when I get some small niggling problem, and realise that there's no way I can even really figure out what's going wrong. Let alone fix it. Learning how things go together and work helps a lot. But I've been on the learning curve you're on, and I know that it's a steep one. Quote
alexander Posted January 10, 2007 Report Posted January 10, 2007 Twit, you remind me of a friend of mine, who every other month seems to do something to screw up his linux box beyond repair, like once he deleted his /usr pratition, then there was a time he changed permissions on all of the files to read only and forgot his root password, then there was a time he deleted pam... well, i'm almost upset i wasn't around when this conversation started, but then i was in no condition to help, stress driven depression is not an easy thing to cope with if you know what i mean... Quote
sanctus Posted January 10, 2007 Author Report Posted January 10, 2007 Anyway Alexander here I come with my next question so if you want to give a break to killean you can help :eek: Following the guide killean posted (Clemson linux initiative) when I try to make the ieee(...) instal after having patched I get the following error message: [root@localhost ieee80211-1.2.15]# make Checking in /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 for ieee80211 components... find: /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/build/: No such file or directory egrep: /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/build//.config: No such file or directory egrep: /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/build//include/linux/autoconf.h: No such file or directory find: /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/build/: No such file or directory make -C /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/build M=/root/ieee80211-1.2.15 modules make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/build: No such file or directory. Stop. make: *** [modules] Error 2 Actually the build is there but it points to a file or folder which isn't there anymore, it says the link build is broken because /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-i686 doesn't exist. And verifying I actually got /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2869.fc6-i686 (note the difference 2798 and 2869). By the way I am writing anyway from linux now I bought a cable... Quote
Killean Posted January 10, 2007 Report Posted January 10, 2007 It's really persistent, isn't it? If you have a cable, you should probably run the YUM commands and grab the i686 kernel and recompile/restart. Otherwise I don't think it's going to let you go any further. Just remember to back up all files located in /boot before you run the kernel config. Also, just to be safe, when you load make menuconfig, near the bottom should be an option to load a previous config files information. Use that and load the config from in /boot (you will have to enter an absolute path). Then run all the kernel commands I showed before. Ummm... It might also be prudent that you add a linux symbolic link to the new kernel you install. # ln -s /path/to/kernel/folder /usr/src/linux Quote
sanctus Posted January 10, 2007 Author Report Posted January 10, 2007 I actually already run the yum comand, the only one coming before that point. If I remember right it was yum update after having put the new kernel with rm (...) Quote
Killean Posted January 10, 2007 Report Posted January 10, 2007 So you have done all this up to the point I am showing?Download kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i686.rpm # rpm -e kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 (if installed) # rpm -Uvh --replacefiles --replacepkgs kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i686.rpm reboot [color=#FF0000]->[/color] # yum --enablerepo=updates update # rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm # yum install ipw2200-firmware # yum --enablerepo=updates install kernel-devel Quote
sanctus Posted January 11, 2007 Author Report Posted January 11, 2007 I think I may have found the problem, because as I wasn't sure anymore to have done all the comands you wrote, I did them again and here is what I've got: [root@localhost ~]# yum --enablerepo=updates install kernel-devel Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Parsing package install arguments Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package kernel-devel.i686 0:2.6.18-1.2868.fc6 set to be installed --> Running transaction check Dependencies Resolved ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Installing: kernel-devel i686 2.6.18-1.2868.fc6 updates 4.6 M Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 1 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 4.6 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Check Error: package kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 (which is newer than kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.2868.fc6) is already installed So running yum update I got a newer version than the one in the document.... By the way is it normal that cable is slower than wireless? Quote
Killean Posted January 11, 2007 Report Posted January 11, 2007 By the way is it normal that cable is slower than wireless?:rolleyes: Technically no, cable should be twice if not five times as fast. Across my home network, wired traffic tops at about 12 mbps, while wireless only gets a meager 2-3 mbps. I think YUM is telling you that you already have the necessary kern-devel package installed. If there are any problems, you might have to backtrack and uninstall what you have done so far, and try to find older versions of stuff to work with. Quote
alexander Posted January 12, 2007 Report Posted January 12, 2007 and that is why yum is one of the worst package managers out there... hence its nickname yuck :shrug: anyone hear anything about suse's ultimate package manager that was supposingly supposed to install rpms, cvss, and debs as well as have access to apt and yum repositories? or is it dropped for some crazy reason? anyways ports are a waaaay better of managing packets and portage is even more better (or betterer) but more confusing and since recently ... unstable :cup: Quote
Killean Posted January 12, 2007 Report Posted January 12, 2007 ... but more confusing and since recently ... unstableProgrammers. *shakes head* Such useless twits. Can't even keep a good piece of code stable for long. :) Quote
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