[PlanetCCRMA] problems with installing fc8

[Joe Hartley]

On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 08:41:01 -0800 (PST)
Oded Ben-Tal <oded at ccrma.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
> So with some tweaking of the BIOS I was able to install fc8, but it seems 
> neither the ethernet nor the wireless is supported by the default setup. 
> There are some instructions about building drivers for one or the other 
> but for that I'll need the kernel headers (and hope I don't ruin 
> everything). For which I need a network...
> Any chance the drivers will become supported soon?

Odd, I've never had problems with the wired ethernet port on any of the
ThinkPads I've used over the years.  I know that Lenovo uses a lot of
Atheros chips for the wireless.  In Fedora 8 and earlier, this required
MadWiFi or ndiswrappers to work, but is supported out of the box on
Fedora 9.  You may want to try downloading the Fedora 9 live CD and
see if it works for your system.

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