fedora core 4 - CentOS 5

[Gary Gatling]

Greetings,

I'm upgrading my laptop (not a DELL, sorry, a thinkpad) to CentOS 5 now 
that its out. (Its fedora 4 at the moment) That way I get security 
updates for at least 5 years which is not the case with fedora since they 
killed fedora legacy. I'm also kickstarting / upgrading a DELL PowerEdge 
300 vsftpd server I run this week at work to CentOS 5 to stay on DELL 
hardware...

http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/

I'm not the kind of person who likes to always be upgrading my system.
But I do want security updates as long as possible for free. :)

Its pretty much the same as RHEL 5 but without some of the artwork or 
stupid stuff like installation numbers. (You can use yum in your kickstart 
%post like you can with a fedora distro)

Stuff you read on any web forums about fedora on DELL laptops might 
also apply to centos-5. Its using 2.6.18-8.1.1.el5 at the moment. You may 
want to also look into NDIS wrappers for your distro if the first idea 
(using a newer kernel) doesn't help. I had to download special firmware 
for my laptop. (A Lenovo T43) and our help desk helped some dude with a 
HP laptop use the NDIS wrapper stuff get his debian system working. 
(Sorry I don't know more about NDIS wrappers since my laptop's wireless 
doesn't need it)

Doing the google search idea is a really good one! Its how I initilally 
discovered I needed to download the firmware and why it wasn't included in 
red hat for my laptop. (You have to click through a "I agree" thingy on 
the download site which turned off red hat's lawyers)

For example, check out out:

http://nnucomputerwhiz.com/linux-dell-latitude.html

or

http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/dell.html

which I just found. :)

>From a cursory check of that long list you might be blazing a trail with 
that make and model running red hat.

You might want to also check out a ubunto live DVD or some such if 
possible. On the ubuntu DVD my laptop's wireless "just works" [TM] when I 
boot off the DVD.

I've seen a bunch of students dual booting their DELL laptops here at NCSU 
with various distros so I know it must be possible to get the wireless 
cards working with Linux on some models so good luck with that.

Sorry for the (long) off topic post...

Cheers,

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Tarjei Knapstad wrote:

> On 4/17/07, Jonathan Perry <beanperry01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have a Dell 110L laptop and have put Fedora Core 4 on in and need to know
>> how to set it up for wireless.
>>
>
> Wireless support is vastly improved in later kernels (from 2.6.18 and
> up), while Fedora 4 is based on a 2.6.11 kernel. I think your best bet
> would probably be to install Fedora Core 6 instead (or wait for FC 7
> which is right around the corner).
>
> If you still want to give it a try, googling for "linux wireless"
> should give you quite a few pointers, for instance:
> http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch13_:_Linux_Wireless_Networking
>
> Regards,
> --
> Tarjei
>
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