GOT IT!!

[shelaby]

Ok, so this laptop has a button that can turn the wireless card on and off in windows. When its on the button glows blue, when its off, the led is off. Now when i start up FC4 the button blinks a few times, like when it is starting the network. Problem is that i cannot for the life of me, figure out how to turn the wireless card on in redhat. Just pressing the button does nothing. I tried checking out the config files for the driver but theres nothing about EnableRadio in there. I tried "Fn + F1-12"

Can anybody, please, tell me how to turn this thing on in FC4.

thanks

 

[erwos]

Don't use Red Hat 9. Use Fedora Core 4, or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

-Erwos

 

[shelaby]

sorry, i am using FC4, dunno why i said redhat haha, OP has been edited

 

[erwos]

How do you know the radio hasn't been enabled, and the light just isn't on? Sometimes, the LED is software-controlled.

-Erwos

 

[shelaby]

I know its not on because i cannot connect to the internet with it. everything is set up correctly, i tried both static and dynamic ip's.

also, when linux starts up

at the

initializing hardware.... storage network audio done

line

when it gets to network, the LED flashes on for a couple seconds then turns off

 

[erwos]

Try using NetworkManager and NetworkManagerInfo.

-Erwos

 

[shelaby]

I GOT IT!

sorry, im excited, real linux noob here, just beginning to figure stuff out 🙂

got the card turning on with boot now, and got it connected to the internet 😀