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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Wireless on Dell D520 with Linux-FC6

Dear FC users,

Please refer to
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=148278
follow steps to get your wireless working.

file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
# Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
# for the documentation of these parameters.
IPV6INIT=no
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Wireless
DEVICE=eth1
HWADDR=00:1b:77:81:44:fe
#BOOTPROTO=none
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ESSID=
RATE=Auto
MODE=Managed
CHANNEL=1
USERCTL=yes
PEERDNS=yes

For Wired connection, you may be having something like this at eth0
[root@localhost network-scripts]# more ifcfg-eth0
# Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
HWADDR=00:19:B9:81:69:DE
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Ethernet

Start NetworkManager in background, it automatically searches and get the available networks in range.
command NetworkManager

Meanwhile also monitor /var/log/message
You 'll be asked for some password/key, just put 123 or something.
I got it working on my machine.

For winamp & Other Media Plyers on FC-6

Install Media player
Xmms:
yum resolvedep xmms
yum install xmms xmms-check xmms-plugin
yum -y install xmms xmms-mp3 xmms-faad2 gstreamer-plugins-ugly libmad libid3tag

Xine :
yum -y install xine xine-lib xine-skins

Vlc Player :
yum -y install videolan-client

command xmms will play mp3 for you.



I feel above information 'll be helpful for you to configure Wireless.
Thanks.

Cheers,

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