Hi
Try using help when you pull down the System Admin Network  menu  -- 
It will guide  you to an installation daemon.   I can try to give you more 
details (although this morning I notice all menus vanished.  Probably an 
update overnight...)

I know that linux users at Fermilab were surprised by this method so 
perhaps it is not well-publicized.

With Fermi SL5.2 I was able to install wireless easily with that after 
reading about the only way to do it was to rebuid kernels etc.

Let me know if you need more info
Rick
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 [log in to unmask] 
wrote:

> Hi All
> I have installed SL 5  with dual booting on my  Acer Aspire 4710 laptop.
> In Window Vista my wireless network is working fine.It is showing Intel(R)
> PRO/Wireless 3945BG wireless card.
> But in linux platform when I try to activate wireless network through
> network configuration panel it give this error
> 3c501 device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.
> please suggest that how to proceed to troubleshoot the problem
> Thanks
> Kashif
> 

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